Life is a real miracle, for us as well as for all other creatures on earth.
These amazing images show a whole new world, one you may find it terrifying, fascinating, exciting, or a mix of all three! The photographs were captured using different kinds of microscopes and showing details you’d never notice with the human eye.
1. Chicken Embryo
Tomas Pais de Azevedo/Nikon / Via asia.cnet.com
2. Caterpillar
Oliver Meckes / Via Flickr: fei_company
3. Shark Skin (left) and the Foot of a Fly (right)
(via Reddit/ImNotjesus and EurekAlert)
4. Spider Eyes
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5. A high-Chromium, Nickel-Based Alloy
The photo shows the surface, which was etched to reveal faceted crystallographic planes at regions of localized microstructural damage.
(via Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
6. A Maggot
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7. Steel
(via sofarfromcaring)
8. A Wasp’s Head
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9. A Swollen Tick
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10. Water Mite
Nicole Ottawa / Via Flickr: fei_company
11. Butterfly
Jeff Smallwood / Via geeklens.blogspot.com
12. Eyelash Mite
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13. Your Tooth
David Gregory & Debbie Marshall / Via wellcomeimages.org
14. Butterfly Eggs on a Raspberry Plant
(via DSLRimagery)
15. Kleptoparasitic Bee
Jerome Rozen and Glenn Hall / Via bioone.org
16. Moth Wing
(via Reddit/Dahaka11)
17. Mosquito Eyes
Oliver Meckes / Via fei.com
18. Embryonic Zebrafish
(via FEI Company)
19. The Face of an Ant
Stephen Lyth / Via Flickr: st-stev
20. Another Mite
(via Wikimedia Commons)
21. An Ant’s “Tail”
Stephen Lyth / Via Flickr: st-stev
22. Green Chloroplasts (in which photosynthesis happens) in a plant cell
(via BASF)
23. Leg of a Gecko
(via Reddit/soupyhands)
24. Abdomen of a Mosquito
(via Matt the monkey)
25. Needle and thread
(via Reddit/scott4316)
26. Tadpole
David Spears / Via dailymail.co.uk
27. Hydrothermal Worm
Philippe Crassous / Via fei.com
28. Water Bear
Oliver Meckes / Via Flickr: 42609230@N04
29. A Micro-Crack in Steel
For the record, all electron microscope images are without color: the “earth tones” in this one are not actually on the original image.
The same is true for the other images in this text taken with an electron microscope. Colors are added to help you understand what is what.
(via imgur)
30. Your Eyelashes
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31. A Head Louse Clinging to a Human Hair
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32. Marijuana bud
(via Imgur)
33. Head of an Ant
34. A Marine Worm
(via fStoppers)
35. Household Dust
(via DSLRimagery)
36. Beard Hairs under an electron microscope: cut with a razor (left) and electric shaver (right)
(via Reddit/schematicboy)
37. Human Fingernail
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38. A llama’s Eye
Suren Manvelyan