This Picture of a Mosquito Heart Is The Year’s Best Microphotograph
Our friends at PopPhoto have compiled a gallery of the winners of Nikon’s Small World photomicrography competition. Included are close-ups...

Our friends at PopPhoto have compiled a gallery of the winners of Nikon’s Small World photomicrography competition. Included are close-ups of a mosquito heart (above), a wasp’s nest and more, in breathtaking detail. Check out the gallery and prepare to be amazed.

First Place: Mosquito Heart
Vanderbilt University, Department of Biological Sciences Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Anopheles gambiae (mosquito) heart (100X)
Fluorescence

Second Place: Five-Day-Old Zebrafish Head
University of Utah Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
5-day old zebrafish head (20X)
Confocal

Third Place: Zebrafish Olfactory Bulbs
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Zebrafish olfactory bulbs (250X)
Confocal

Fourth Place: Wasp Nest
La Spezia, SP, Italy
Wasp nest (10X)
Extended Depth of Field Stereomicroscopy

Fifth Place: Bird of Paradise Seed
Institute of Pathophysiology, First Medical Faculty, Charles University
Prague, Czech Republic
Strelitzia reginae (bird of paradise) seed (10X)
Darkfield

Sixth Place: Red Seaweed
Murdoch University, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology
Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
Martensia sp. (red seaweed), living specimen (40X)
Brightfield To see the rest of the stunning shots, visit PopPhoto.