"Captivating Microscopic World: Winning Images from Nikon Small World 2023"

The winning images from the Nikon Small World Photo Microscopy Competition 2023 showcase stunning microscopic views of various subjects, including the optic nerve head of a rodent, a matchstick igniting, venomous fangs of a tarantula, auto-fluorescing defensive hairs on a leaf, capillitial fibers of a slime mold, caffeine crystals, motor neurons grown in a microfluidic device, crystallized sugar syrup, a detailed cuckoo wasp, blood and lymphatic vasculatures in the ear skin of a mouse, wing scales of a Chinese moon moth, a micrometeorite resting on a sieve, stomata in the leaf epidermis of a peace lily, and an adult transgenic zebrafish head.