Gallery: Under a Microscope Even Familiar Things Look Beautifully Weird
Photos by Stefan Eberhard | Caption: Wellcome Images01Plant Reproductive Parts
Scanning electron micrograph of part of a thale cress flower, showing the male and female reproductive organs.
Photos by Khuloud T Al-Jamal and Izzat Suffian | Caption: Wellcome Images02Breast Cancer Treatment
Scanning electron micrograph of a cluster of breast cancer cells (coloured blue).
Photos by Annie Cavanagh and David McCarthy | Caption: Wellcome Images03Zebrafish Embryo
Scanning electron micrograph of a four-day-old zebrafish embryo.
Photos by Spike Walker | Caption: Wellcome Images04Miniature Marine Organism
Light micrograph of a miniature organism found in the sea, part of a group called Foraminifera.
Photos by Spike Walker | Caption: Wellcome Images05Vitamin C Crystals
Light micrograph of crystals of oxidised vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid).
Photos by Spike Walker | Caption: Wellcome Images06Lily Flower Bud
Light micrograph of a stained slice of a lily flower bud showing the male and female reproductive organs.
Photos by Eberhardt Josue Friedrich Kernahan and Enrique Rodriguez Canas | Caption: Wellcome Images07Solar Panel
Scanning electron micrograph of a crystal of copper indium gallium diselenide, or Cu(In,Ga)Se2.
Photos by Chris Thorn | Caption: Wellcome Images08Bat
X-ray projection of a brown long-eared bat hunted and killed by a domestic cat.
Photos by Ashley Prytherch | Caption: Wellcome Images09Tick Sucking Blood
Photograph of a tick burrowing its feeding parts into the skin of the photographer's own leg.
Photos by Anders Persson | Caption: Wellcome Images10Seal Head
Computed tomography (CT) scan of the head of a seal.
Photos by Eberhardt Josue Friedrich Kernahan and Enrique Rodriguez Canas | Caption: Wellcome Images11Agricultural Sludge
Scanning electron micrograph of waste (sludge) from an industrial farming process, after having been burned.
Photos by Anders Persson | Caption: Wellcome Images12Mechanical Heart Pump
(Overall winner) Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT, or dual-energy CT) scan of a patient who received a mechanical heart pump (coloured blue) while waiting for a heart transplant.
Photos by Kevin MacKenzie | Caption: Wellcome Images13Nit on Human Hair
Scanning electron micrograph of a nit or head louse egg (coloured green) attached to a strand of human hair (coloured brown).
Photos by Kevin MacKenzie | Caption: Wellcome Images14Kidney Stone
Scanning electron micrograph of a kidney stone removed from Kevin Mackenzie, the creator of the image.
Photos by Sergio Bertazzo | Caption: Wellcome Images15Hardening of Heart Tissue
Scanning electron micrograph of the surface of human heart valve (aortic valve) tissue.
Photos by Kevin MacKenzie | Caption: Wellcome Images16Medieval Jawbone
Bird's-eye view of a micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) scan of a medieval human lower jawbone.
Photos by Zeynep Saygin | Caption: Wellcome Images17Human Brain Wiring
Bird's-eye view of nerve fibers in a normal, healthy adult human brain.
Photos by Dr. Henry Oakeley | Caption: Wellcome Images18Astrantia Flowers
Photograph of flowers from the plant *Astrantia major*.
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