Can You Guess What This Microscope Image Is?

This is a super close-up image of something you might have eaten. Can you guess it?

These images show detail smaller than the wavelength of visible light - which means they’re too small to be taken with a normal microscope.
Instead, if you fire a beam of electrons at something and measure how they get either reflected or transmitted… you can see WAY more detail. It’s called an electron microscope. If you like optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe for more from our show Huge If True…

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[infernusdoge]

ah yes, i love eating solar panels and mosquito legs

[Blackcheddar]

I was about to say who tf is eating solar panels these days

[tatikagila]

Fun fact the extremely small scale of the objects magnified at this level make it so that it does not actually shows colors reflected on objects. All the colors you see are added in image post processing for the viewer's enjoyment and for clarity.

[Allrounder]

"What would you like for dinner, sir?"
"I'd like the solar panel, please"
"And for dessert?"
"Mosquito legs...obviously"

[Hornswroggle]

I actually held a presentation about one of the most advanced Electron Microscopes in the world for my Physics class in high school.
Its room has to be suspended on air to no transmit vibrations of a nearby road, so the image doesn't get blurred.
It is so precise it's getting to the point of showing singular atoms in a piece of metal.

[yuvalsspecialpage]

As a TEM(Transmission electron microscope) user it's super satisfying when you get a good picture, but it can take hours/days/years/to be continued to take 1 good picture. So you you see these pictures, appreciate the person who takes these pictures

[yzzazz]

this is about the level of detail I use to stare at my own face every morning looking for imperfections

[ernestonuigbo]

Ohh i see thats why the solar panel tasted so rough and light trappy

[EmperorOfTheWebb]

This isn’t fair, I’ve never eaten solar panels OR mosquito legs

[AlfieArmani]

Electron microscopes are also used in metallography to view the crystalline structures of metals plastics and more

[jeolman]

the Electron microscope you showed is called a TEM (Transmission electron Microscope) it does not take the kind of pictures you showed. Those pictures were taken with an SEM (scanning Electron Microscope). They are two totally different methods of image acquisition. Source: I have been a field engineer working on them for over 30 years.

[izAlannah]

The electron microscope you showed is called a TEM (Transmission electron Microscope), and it does not produce the images you showed. Those images were taken with a scanning electron microscope (SEM). They are two completely distinct methods of image acquisition.

[DiamondAce]

"That's salt, right?"
"Solar panel"
"Yummy either way..."
not my hungry ahh

[just_mdd]

Security cameras could only dream of being this detailed! 🤣🤣🤣

[ezekielbreedlove]

The image from an electron microscope is monochromatic so the color is added to the image later!
So that is not what is making it blue!

[markrowland]

Scanning electron microscopes and atomic force microscopes are now available. Electron microscopes were introdyced before WW2.

[HansWindhoff]

These things are not smaller than the wavelength of visible light, they can be seen in a "normal microscope" and all your images are taken with a Scanning EM not a TEM which is what you are showing in the clip.

[greenus]

I work with EMs for my research, specifically cryogenic EMs

[dieflasche]

It's even more fun to see them in action.
We have two of those at my work, and they actually had to build a magnetic field cancellation System, because of the Train station about 100 Meters away. Its so interesting how these things are build and how they work. If you ever get the chance of seeing one in person (even better if someone is there to explain everything to you) go see it

[daminkon]

I'm from Czechia, and here in the city of Brno, we have one of the biggest "factories" for creating those electron microscopes and I went on a tour there, super interesting! They're more like laboratories since creating them is so difficult, but they're shipped all over the world from there. One third of all electron microscopes are from there. Cool stuff :)