Vincent van Gogh's painting "The Starry Night" has long been admired for its art, but physicists are also intrigued by the science beneath the strokes and swirls.

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In his swirling 1889 masterwork, The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh took certain artistic liberties. The quaint valley village is imaginary and the brilliant crescent moon was actually in waning ...

Scientists recently analyzed Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night to see how well its famous swirls matched up with known atmospheric physics.; After analysis, they found that not only did the shapes ...

(CNN) — 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 moon in all its glory. (Image credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night) The most obvious celestial marvel, and of course the easiest to admire, is none other than our very own moon.Dutifully showing ...

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 ...

What I take away from studies like this is that van Gogh captured some of this universality in the beautiful ‘Starry Night.’ And I think people know this,” Beattie said in an email.

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.