What they learned most of all through the experiments — including a look at “Starry Night’s” 14 twirling shapes — was how van Gogh had an uncanny connection to the movement of our ...

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.

Scientists recently analyzed Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night to see how well its famous swirls matched up with known ...

In order to find the ancient Three Leaps of the Gazelle asterism you must first locate the Big Dipper, which is high in the ...

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 ...