Sometimes the most unimaginable beauty comes from the world cannot be seen with the human eye, but yet still exists in the invisible netherworld of the microscope. Here are some artistic treasures, spied on the Reddit Microporn page, have a look and you will become hooked.
Crystalline acetylsalicylic acid viewed under polarised light at 10X magnification. Source: Imgur
Intake of a humped bladderwort (Utricularia gibba), a freshwater carnivorous plant (100x) (Igor Siwanowicz) Source: Imgur
A merged stack of confocal images showing actin filaments within a cell. Source: Wikimedia.
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