In 1941 — 52 years after van Gogh painted "The Starry Night" — mathematician Andrey N. Kolmogorov proposed a formula to ...

In 1941 — 52 years after van Gogh painted "The Starry Night" — mathematician Andrey N. Kolmogorov proposed a formula to explain how the kinetic energy of a vigorously moving fluid flowed from ...

If you’ve ever taken a nice long look at Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece “The Starry Night,” you might have noticed that the painted universe almost appears to be in motion. The swirling ...

Vincent van Gogh, "The Starry Night" (1889), oil on canvas, 28 7/10 x 36 1/5 inches (73 x 92 cm) (public domain via Wikimedia Commons) Subscribe to our newsletter.

The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889. Now, a new ...

The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889 Art Images via Getty Images. Vincent van ... This type of movement, called turbulent flow, can be seen in “moving water, ...

Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” when he was 36 — in June 1889, near the end of his life, which ended in suicide a year later. But over his short artistic career, his style evolved in form ...

The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889. Now, a new ...

The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889. Now, a new ...