The reason city folk can't see a true starry sky is light pollution. Photos of Earth at night from space show entire ...

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

They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent ... Researchers replaced the night sky in the painting with simulated supersonic turbulence, processed to resemble the original painting.