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

In 1890, less than two months before he ended his life with a pistol ... but also one of the most "real." His first painting of the starry sky, The Starry Night over the Rhône (1888), was another ...

The famous painting from Dutch post-impressionist ... in a different flavor of turbulence that gives birth to the real starry night: supersonic turbulence. Physicists studied a region of ...

VCU’s Mohamed Gad-el-Hak says the swirls depicted in the painting do not follow the rules of flow physics after all.