See 40 Mind-Blowing Images Captured Through a Microscope

  • Jumping spider eyes at 20x magnification.
    Noah Fram-Schwartz
    1 of 40
  • A bed bug at 50x magnification.
    Stefano Barone
    2 of 40
  • A mite in a forest at 10x magnification.
    José R. Almodóvar
    3 of 40
  • Cultured embryonic chicken dorsal root ganglia neuron explant at 60x magnification.
    Dr. Michael John Bridge
    4 of 40
  • A crawling bone cancer cell at 8000x magnification.
    Dr. Dylan T. Burnette
    5 of 40
  • Active fluid flow around P. damicornis at 4x magnification
    Dr. Douglas Brumley
    6 of 40
  • A Chrysochroa buqueti (jewel beetle) at 45x magnification.
    Charles Krebs
    7 of 40
  • Focal conic-like domain with varying degrees of modulation and checkerboard patterns at 40x magnification.
    Dr. Rajdeep Deb
    8 of 40
  • ALeptothorax acervorum (ant) carrying its larva at 5x magnification.
    Geir Drange
    9 of 40
  • A sagittal brain slice showing cell nuclei at 40x magnification.
    Dr. Marco Dal Maschio
    10 of 40
  • A mouse brain vasculature at 2x magnification.
    Dr. Ali Erturk
    11 of 40
  • A Tradescantia zebrina (wandering jew) leaf stomata at 40x magnification.
    Dr. Jerzy Gubernator
    12 of 40
  • A Tigriopus californicus (copepod) at 10x magnification.
    Dr. Terue Kihara
    13 of 40
  • A Chrysochroa buqueti (jewel beetle) carapace, near eye at 450x magnification.
    Charles Krebs
    14 of 40
  • Live zebrafish embryo at 22 hours post-fertilization.
    Dr. Philipp Keller
    15 of 40
  • A Casuarina equisetifolia (beach oak) twigs at 125x magnification.
    Anatoly Mikhaltsov
    16 of 40
  • Bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells.
    Dr. Muthugapatti K. Kandasamy
    17 of 40
  • A Vespula vulgaris (common wasp) stinger at 5x magnification.
    Geir Drange
    18 of 40
  • An ant eye at 20x magnification.
    Noah Fram-Schwartz
    19 of 40
  • Conichalcite pseudomorph after azurite at 6x magnification.
    Honorio Cócera-La Parra
    20 of 40
  • Pleurosigma angulatum (diatoms) at 100x magnification.
    Christian Gautier
    21 of 40
  • Lilium anther, second division tetrads at 500x magnification.
    Raymond Sloss
    22 of 40
  • Montana Dryhead agate at 50x magnification.
    Douglas L. Moore
    23 of 40
  • Tripolycyanamide crystal at 100x magnification.
    Yanping Wang
    24 of 40
  • A young starfish at 5x magnification.
    Steven Wilbert
    25 of 40
  • A Solea sp. (fish) at 25x magnification.
    David Linstead
    26 of 40
  • Pleurotaenium ovatum (micro algae) at 40x magnification.
    Rogelio Moreno Gill
    27 of 40
  • A Magnesium chloride and potassium alum mixture at 25x magnification.
    Chao Zhang
    28 of 40
  • A rhombohedral cleavage in calcite crystal at 10x magnification.
    Alessandro Da Mommio
    29 of 40
  • Marine algae at 40x magnification.
    Waldo Nell
    30 of 40
  • A Ceriodaphnia sp. (water flea) at 20x magnification.
    Rogelio Moreno Gill
    31 of 40
  • A snowflake at 8x magnification.
    Michael Peres
    32 of 40
  • A Shipworm Lyrodus pedicellatus and a wood-boring mussel at 20x magnification.
    Andrea Wurzinger-Mayer
    33 of 40
  • Anagallis arvensis (scarlet pimpernel) at 80x magnification.
    Jens H. Petersen
    34 of 40
  • A flower embryo at 40x magnification.
    Samuel Silberman
    35 of 40
  • The underside of a Brown dog tick and Lonestar tick at 100x magnification.
    Dr. Igor Robert Siwanowicz
    36 of 40
  • Living Micrasterias in contrast Interphako at 100 magnification.
    Frank Fox
    37 of 40
  • Recrystallized bismuth iodide at 100x magnification.
    Sebastian Blaise Sparenga
    38 of 40
  • A Hydra and Volvox at 10x magnification.
    Steven Wilbert
    39 of 40
  • Appendages of a common brine shrimp at 100x magnification.
    Dr. Igor Robert Siwanowicz
    40 of 40
By TIME Photo
November 10, 2014 4:55 PM EST

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