Art lovers have long known that the Dutch painter saw the night sky like nobody else — and now scientists know it, too.

When Vincent van Gogh painted "The Starry Night," one of his most iconic paintings, he incorporated a mix of memory, observation, and, perhaps, his intuition for mathematics and nature.

The study authors measured the relative scale and spacing of the whirling brush strokes in Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” along with variances in luminance of the paint to see if the laws that apply ...

An aerial view of the park that replicates the look of Vincent van Gogh's painting "The Starry ... [+] Night" in Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The vibrant rolling sky in Vincent van Gogh’s ...

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Scientists analyse spacing of brush strokes in van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ (Yinxiang Ma) “With a high-resolution digital picture, we were able to measure precisely the typical size of ...

(Image credit: Starry Night/Jamie Carter) The most famous shape from July through fall is the Summer Triangle, a vast asterism with three bright stars — Vega, Deneb and Altair — making its ...

Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to follow a mathematical theory describing fluids in nature. He couldn't have understood the equations, which came about decades after his death. Researchers found ...