Wait, What? This Scientist Recreated Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' With Bacteria

Creepy, crawly art.

This is bacteria.

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Specifically, gut bacteria.

Looking at bacteria might call other things to mind...

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Like, say, pickles.

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There's definitely a likeness there.

Or green pool noodles.

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That sponginess is on point.

One thing that bacteria does NOT bring to mind: Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'

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Wut the wut.

I MEAN.

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Which is why it's nothing short of pure magic that a scientist used bacteria to make THIS:

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The project was for The American Society for Microbiology's first-ever art contest. Scientists used microbes and a jelly-like substance called agar to "draw" a piece of art, according to Upworthy.

It's pretty damn good.

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Most people can't pull off 'Starry Night' with paint let alone fillangee-riddled microbes.

Even though the germy recreation didn't win the art contest.

Mehmet Berkmen of New England Biolabs with artist Maria Penil

This neuron bouquet did.

And there was some stiff competition.

Maria Eugenia Inda, a postdoctoral researcher from Argentina working at Cold Spring Harbor Labs

Like this country vision.

Seriously.

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This is a map of NYC in germs. IMPRESSIVE.

We still cherish the day that science truly became art.

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