They look like tiny galaxies, but these are actually grains of sand viewed under the microscope! Sand grains are particles of loose sediment that range between 1/16- 2mm in diameter. Here we have little pieces of shell (blue, pink and bottom yellow), coral (top left yellow), volcanic melt (brown on the bottom left) and foram (a type of plankton, on the right). It’s amazing the beauty and diversity you can find when you look a little closer.
Wondering if these particles of sand are from the same location or different places? Extraordinary that they should be so different one from the other especially the colour… shapes I can understand but such different colours!?
“It’s amazing the beauty and diversity you can find when you look a little closer.” This is true in EVERY SINGLE aspect of our lives!
It sometimes scares me how closely smaller structures resemble larger ones, or vice versa. Even our own solar system, with the heliosphere and sun as a nucleus, sort of follows the template of a living cell. The possibilities.
I have always seen things as the microcosm and macrocosm constantly reflecting and mirroring one another!
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