They would have a long ride back. But they had a lot to see. After gazing into the sky of “Starry Night over the Rhône,” painted in 1888, the two took pictures of each other from the back as ...
They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent, and not just by artistic standards. A decade later, astrophysicist James Beattie analyzed the variations in luminance in a patch in the middle ...