The Dutch master Vincent van Gogh may have painted one of Western history's most enduring works, but "The Starry Night" is ...

He found that Van Gogh’s swirls and vortexes followed the statistical fluctuations found in a different flavor of turbulence that gives birth to the real starry night: supersonic turbulence.

Van Gogh painted Starry Night in 1889, while staying in the Saint Paul de Mausole Asylum in France, where he was surrounded by nature. The asylum became a place of refuge for him, where he ...

“I think this physical relationship must be embedded in his mind so that’s why when he made this famous ‘Starry Night’ painting, it mimics the real flow,” Huang said. Beattie ...