They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent ... Researchers replaced the night sky in the painting with simulated supersonic turbulence, processed to resemble the original painting.

Though visually similar to turbulence, “The Starry Night” lacks the scientific elements needed to support that claim.

“The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky ... scale of the paint strokes played a ...

The post-Impressionist artist painted the work (often referred to simply as "Starry Night") in June 1889, and its depiction of a pre-sunrise sky and village was inspired in part by the view from van ...

For it was to the night sky, and to the stars, that van Gogh often looked for solace. The problems of painting night scenes on the spot held more than a technical interest and challenge for him.