An interesting link between atmospheric and astronomical turbulence and Van Gogh’s starry night. In investigating astronomical structures, astronomers noticed some looked like the flows in Van Gogh’s Starry Night. In analyzing his paintings, as he struggled towards the end of his life, his paintings with turbulent characteristics more and more closely represented actual mathematical turbulent flow.

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• https://www.upworthy.com/van-gogh-painting-truly-seen-for-first-time-in-125-years-ex1