The most incredible microscope images of 2016 reveal a beautiful, hidden universe

[WillParkinson]

http://www.businessinsider.com/best-microscope-photography-nikon-small-world-2016-10/#ant-leg-91

The world we see with our eyes is just one view of reality, but microscopes can bring a smaller, practically invisible universe within reach.

Photographs taken through the lenses of a high-power 'scope can reveal lifeforms and objects no person has ever seen.

They also highlight beautiful, artistic, and often shocking details in common objects, like soap bubbles, dried coffee, flowers, and butterfly tongues:

[niyad]

1. oh my word. how amazingly beautiful.

[deathrind]

2. The Universe...

Is an incredibly amazing place in both the small and large scale. It's capability to creating intricate and beautiful structures/compositions is mind blowing.

It is also capable of creating organisms like DT...so obviously there is still room for improvement. But that does not diminish it's splendor.

[packman]

3. I posted the same with some photos to wet one's appetite

[alfredo]

4. That site is very slow, probably slammed by traffic.

Here's the Small world site with the top twenty images.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/amazing-microscope-images-reveal-beauty-unlikely-placeslike-cow-dung-1586027#slideshow/1557756

[Upthevibe]

5. WOW!!!! N/T

[lillypaddle]

6. The miracles of nature

and science. Amazing.