91 Amazing Photomicrography Pictures Show The Beauty & Complexity Of These Tiny Universes

OK, America. We’re calling a timeout.

We may only have just under one more month to go until possibly the most embarrassing presidential election in U.S. history comes to an end and we can all go about the business of lamenting what awaits over the next four years. That’s going to feel like a longer wait than it is. With that in mind, let’s all take a moment to appreciate just how intricate and beautiful the littlest things around us can be.

Every one of these images was captured by placing a trace of an everyday object beneath some of the highest-powered microscopes in the world. A soap bubble. Coffee grounds. A human HeLa cell dividing itself. The eye of a jumping spider and fin of a zebrafish. Looking inside a single particle reveals an entire universe that might as well be as “alive” with energy and uniquely complex structures as gigantic cobbled-together seas of various organic matter like us.

See? Doesn’t that soothing little moment just make you feel a little bit lighter, a little bit more at peace? Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to spray down the Statue of Liberty with viscous purple slime and play it some Jackie Wilson just in case that didn’t settle everyone down.

Source – IFLScience

Caudal gill of a dragonfly larva

Microcrystal test for oxycodone

Butterfly scales

Casuarina seed

Butterfly proboscis

Beta-alanine and taurine crystals

Black Elder Tree Flower Stamen

Brain matter of a transgenic mouse in 3D

Barley stem cross section

Ant leg

Ant pupae

Algae

Ammonite shell

Air bubbles formed from melted ascorbic acid crystals Air bubbles in evaporating tequila Algae cells A daisy’s central disc pattern of tiny unopened flowers A Frontonia cell showing ingested food, cilia, mouth, and trichocysts 3D picture of moving vesicles
Zooplankton carefully arranged by hand in Victorian style

Young flower buds of Arabidopsis, a flowering plant
Zebrafish fin

Wildflower stamens

Wildflower stamens

Viperfish

Wasp eyes

Water mite

Tintinnid ciliate of a marine plankton from the Indian Ocean

Trumpet animalcule an endosymbionts

The prolegs of a hairy caterpillar gripping a small branch

Tiger beetle and a scale of the forester moth

Tail of a small shrimp

Testis of a fruit fly

Spore capsule of a moss

Surface of embryonic mouse kidney

Seeds of an Indian Paintbrush wildflower

Slime mold

Section of stem of a plant specimen

Section of the cerebellum in a brain

Scales of a butterfly wing

Section of a begonia flower

Scales of a butterfly wing underside

Robber fly

Rubber coated with a thin glass

Polished slab of Teepee Canyon agate

Red speckled jewel beetle

Oreina cacaliae Poison fangs of a centipede Mouse retina, laid flat
Mouse retinal ganglion cells Mullein flower
Mosquito larva
Mouse hand showing veins Midge flies

Leaves of a liverwort plant Leg of a water boatman Jellyfish Jurinea mollis seed
Leaves of a lesser club moss
Human HeLa cell undergoing cell division
Inside of a humped bladderwort, a freshwater carnivorous plant Human brain cells differentiated from embryonic stem cells Hippocampal brain slice Hippocampal neurons Head of an orange ladybird Head of a skinbow zebrafish larvae Green bottle fly

Glycerin-based soapy solution

Goatsbeard flower seeds

Gear-like hind legs of a planthopper nymph

Fungus growing on cow dung

Galls of a mite and fungus on the surface of a scarlet firethorn plant

Front foot of a male diving beetle

Four-day-old zebrafish embryo

Fossil diatom composed of 20 individual photos

Eyes of a jumping spider

Flow currents generated by an eight-week-old starfish larva

Espresso coffee crystals

Early stages of mouse embryos

Egg of a Gulf Fritillary butterfly

Deep sea crustacean

Diatoms

Curvepod fumewort seed

Dahlia flower section

Crystals of salicin, a painkiller, extracted from Willow tree bark

Cultured fat cells from a grizzly bear

Cross-section of reinforced carbon-fiber

Crystals of diclofenac (also called Zorvolex), a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug

Copper crystals

Cross section of a lily of the valley

Cerebellum brain section of a rat