Photos Of The Amazing And Gruesome World Under A Microscope

Microscope photography allows us to view objects in new ways that the human eye never could.

There are microscopic things all around us. When these tiny organisms we ignore each day are put under microscopes, their intricate detail is astonishing.

These are some of the strangest sites to see. Who knew that dust could look that colorful? Here are 30 cool photos of amazing things under a microscope.

1. A wood ant holding a microchip in its mandibles

2. Butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant

3. A micro-crack in steel

4. Household dust

5. Needle and thread

6. E.coli bacteria on lettuce

7. Beard hairs under a scanning electron microscope: cut with razor (left) and electric shaver (right)

8. A moth wing

9. Head of an embryonic Zebrafish with 500x magnification

10. This picture shows the aftermath of fayalite reacting with gaseous CO2 to form siderite, thereby capturing the CO2 in a solid, stable form.

11. A piece of dentine with dentinal tubules from human tooth, after demineralization using etching with 37% phosphoric acid for 15 seconds and 10% sodium hypochlorite for 1 minute.

12. Shark skin (left) and a foot of a fly (right)

13. The head of a maggot of a bluebottle fly

14. A mite, magnified about 850x

15. Leaf of a Virginia spiderwort

16. The green chloropasts in the plant cells

17. Spherical spores produced by the fungus Emericella nidulans are coated in a thin layer of the protein hydrophobic. Hydrophobin ensures that water rolls off the spores.

18. A bacterium living on the diatom of an amphipod

19. Leg of a Gecko

20. A Marine Worm, 58x magnification

21. Steel

22. A bud of a sand dollar (or sea cookie) with 4348x magnification

23. Abdomen of a mosquito

24. Banana

25. Human eyelash

26. Salt and pepper

27.Used dental floss

28. Velcro

29. Vinyl Disc

30. A sutured wound

31. A human embryo on tip of a pen

32. Face of an ant

33. T4 bacteriophage (virus)

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h/t io9