Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” has long been admired for its art, but physicists are also intrigued by the ...

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Van Gogh was a fearless pioneer in this massive shift in Western art from looking out to looking ... When he painted The Starry Night was he already thinking about the afterlife?” ...

They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent, and not just by artistic standards. A decade later, astrophysicist James Beattie analyzed the variations in luminance in a patch in the middle portion ...