Are city lights and suburban street lamps dimming our view of the starry, starry night? Not everywhere. At least not yet. Barry Petersen takes us stargazing. Originally broadcast August 10, 2014: In ...

Two decades ago, a pair of physicists stood in a museum in Madrid contemplating the work of the post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. One word kept popping up to describe the artist’s work and ...

In 1971, a song called, “American Pie,” stormed up the U.S. record charts to No. 1, and stayed there for four full weeks. That’s pretty good for any hit, but what’s unusual is that the tune runs eight ...

The eye tends to dwell on the turbulence of the sky in Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night. Academics have fixated on it, investigating its astronomical accuracy (the moon was full not crescent), ...

Was Vincent van Gogh the original chaos theorist? While we admire the beauty of “The Starry Night,” physicists decided to crash the party and analyze its swirling sky like a science experiment. It ...

In his swirling 1889 masterwork, The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh took certain artistic liberties. The quaint valley village is imaginary and the brilliant crescent moon was actually in waning ...

Having just passed the June solstice, the Australian night sky is at its most beautiful. With the evenings lasting longer and the crisp winter winds blowing away the clouds, the sky has become a ...