This Guy Makes Brilliant Recreations of Space Images, But You Won't Believe What He Uses
Navid Baraty has been very inspired by  Hubble telescope images...and why shouldn't he be? The images captured by the telescope are truly out of this world (pun intended), and show all of us a reality far beyond our own that is extremely captivating.Â
He decided to use an Epson scanner to create a series of images using a very surprising array of materials in order to create the Wormhole Accelerated Nomad Delivery Reconnaissance  (WANDER) series.Â
See if you can guess the materials before reading!
The artist filled a glass with half and half, water and food coloring and that created the image of the planet. He took another glass and filled it with coconut milk, water and food coloring. That's how he got the images of the two moons. For the stars, he used cinnamon, baking soda, TUMs and salt.Â
Wrong. This is carefully arranged garlic powder, salt, flour, cumin, turmeric and, our personal favorite, cat fur.Â
The secret ingredients for this image were water (but not nearly as much as the real Earth), some half and half, food coloring, and then a touch of sugar, baking powder, and cinnamon.
And as you may have guessed (unbelievable though it is), these images were once again the result of careful concoctions mixed together in glasses. More water, more half and half, coconut milk and of course food coloring.Â
This one sounds like it's halfway to being a delicious stir-fry: Sesame oil, flour, cumin, cinnamon, water, and of course a bit of olive oil created this stunning display.
The effect you see here was created by curry powder (yum), chalk (not-so-yum), baking soda, salt, sugar and cinnamon.Â
Although most globular clusters in the universe are not made of salt, baking soda, curry powder, sugar, and cinnamon.
The reason for that outrageously awful joke is that this image was actually created with a glass of coffee surrounded by cornstarch, cinnamon, sugar and salt.Â
For this one, you'll need a little bit more than food. Start with olive oil, chalk, baby powder, salt, and water, but then get a little crazy with some different colored makeup to create the full effect.Â
Let's start with the icy planet. Fill that glass with water, half and half and food coloring. Moving on to the moons, you'll need food coloring and silica gel. Cinnamon, sugar and cumin will makeup these stars (they will also add delicious flavoring to Moroccan carrot soup).Â
Yet again, this list of ingredients sounds like something that would be really delicious seasoning some chicken or a slew of vegetables thrown around in a wok.You'll need flour, olive oil, sugar, cumin, salt, cinnamon, turmeric, garlic powder, water and curry.Â
Do you have food coloring? Do you have salt? Do you have butter? You, my friend, have all the makings of a ghost anomaly.Â