20 Most Amazing Microscope Pictures



These amazing pictures are from the book "Microcosmos" by Brandon Brill.

1 – A wood or heathland Ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip
 

2 – The surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip


3 – Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin


4 – The surface of a strawberry


5 – Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue


6 – Human sperm (spermatozoa), the male sex cells


7 – The nylon hooks and loops of velcro


8 – Household dust which includes long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woolen fibers, serrated insect scales, a pollen grain, plant and insect remains


9 -The weave of a nylon stocking


10 – The end of the tongue (proboscis) of a hummingbird hawkmoth

        
11 – The head of a mosquito

  
12 – A human head louse clinging to a hair

  
13 – The eight eyes (two groups of four) on the head of a Mexican red-kneed tarantula

  
14 – Cut hairs and shaving foam between two razor blades

  
15 – Cigarette paper

  
16 – The corroded surface of a rusty metal nail

  
17 – The head of a Romanesco cauliflower

  
18 – The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

  
19 – Mushrooms spores

  
20 – A clutch of unidentified butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant

  


2 comments:

  1. Excellent pics...

    Steph

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  2. im slightly buzzed on some Bud Platinum and these photos are trippy to think about.

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