Magnified Images
Can you guess what this is?
Answer It’s a monarch butterfly wing magnified 50x.
Can you guess? A common music cd magnified many times.
Can you guess? A soap bubble!
Why magnify? Magnification helps scientists study things that are too small to be seen with the human eye. Hand lenses, magnifying glasses, and microscopes allow for a range of enlarged views. The scanning electron microscope has allowed scientists to study things at the atomic level.
Owl feather – 50X
Cow eye cells - 100X
Blood cells Human hair
Dust mites in carpet dirt
Mosquito - 200X
Human cells enhanced with fluorescence
A close up of a moth’s eye
Magnified 5,250 times
One micrometer
.040 mm - Pollen