Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" has stirred the souls of art lovers for over a century. Now, its swirling skies may also speak ...

Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” has long been admired for its art, but physicists are also intrigued by the science beneath the strokes and swirls.

He painted "The Starry Night" in 1889 while living inside an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France. He committed suicide in July 1890 two months after his release, according to the Van Gogh Gallery.

Scientists have determined the eddies in Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" adhere to Kolmogorov's law, a theory of turbulence that predicts atmospheric movement and scale based on inertial energy.

The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889 Art Images via Getty Images Zukic purchased more land and hired a team of roughly two dozen gardeners.

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