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For 125 years, millions looked at this painting without truly seeing it
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For 125 years, millions looked at this painting without truly seeing it

Vincent van Gogh never lived to see the fame his art would earn, but fresh research has revealed another remarkable side to his work. Inspired by an image from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists examined his paintings and found that The Starry Night captures patterns of turbulence - the swirling flow of air and water. Even artists known for movement and vivid light did not portray this natural phenomenon in quite the same way. And here's the thing: Van Gogh painted these astonishing patterns about a century before scientists could study them with modern technology.
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