Looking at the world through a microscope 🧵
1. Terrifying photo of an ant's face
2. The human eye looks like a black hole
This stunning photo by Suren Manvelyan reveals the depth of the cornea; behind it lies the iris, the colored part of the eye that regulates the size of the pupil.
3. Mushrooms release millions of microscopic spores into the wind to reproduce. Video by Villareal C. Jojo.
4. Grains of salt under a microscope
5. Real-time oxygen production on a leaf
6. A cat’s tongue under a microscope looks like it’s made of other smaller tongues
7. Zooming into a leaf
📹macrofying
8. Macro shot of a chameleon eye
9. This is what a pen looks like under an electron microscope
10. Microscopic look at a bee stinger vs. the point of a needle
11. Our white blood cells attacking a virus
12. Close-up shots of spider eyes captured by Spanish macro photographer Javier Rupérez.
13. Zooming into a cup of coffee
📹macrofying
14. Kidney stone surface as seen in an electron microscope
15. The needles of a tattoo machine injecting ink into ballistic gel
16. This is what a hole in the skin looks like after a needle punctures it, as observed under a scanning electron microscope.
17. This is what it looks like when a pill dissolves in water
18. This is shark skin under electron microscope
19. This is what smoke looks like in Macro
20. Paper cuts are surprisingly painful because, at a microscopic level, paper has a rough texture.
While a knife creates a clean cut, paper behaves like a saw blade, inflicting more damage to cells and nerve endings.
21. Macro photo of lizard skin
22. A matchstick igniting by the friction surface of the box
23. Microscopic image of a tapeworm head
24. Zooming into a hand
📹macrofying
25. This is another image of an ant's face, captured by photographer Abdul Latif using a mirrorless camera.
This shot also highlights the insect's eyes, while the first photo in this thread only shows the antennae holes.
26. Look at this microscopic tardigrade going for a swim through some algae.
Tardigrades are tiny micro-animals first described by German zoologist J. Goeze in 1773. They were named Tardigrada (slow steppers) by Italian biologist L. Spallanzani in 1776.
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