Photos taken under the world's most beautiful microscope

Nikon organizes an annual contest to look for the best photos to capture the world of microorganisms, viruses and microscopic objects under the microscope's magnification.

Nikon Corporation announced a list of 20 winning photos in the Nikon Small World 2016 competition, on October 19.This year, photographers from 70 countries sent more than 2,000 photos to attend, according to Business Insider.The picture shows pilobolus mushroom growing on cow dung spreading spores by a photographer, Michael Crutchley, with a magnification of 30 times.

Six researchers at Rockefeller University, USA, photographed stem cells from human embryos developing into brain cells with a magnification of 10 times.

The wide-legged horseshoe-shaped photo of the horseshoe (40 times exaggerated) by Pia Scanlon, bio-security specialist at the Department of Agriculture and Food, University of Western Australia (UWA).

Jose Almodovar, a biologist at the University of Puerto Rico, photographed the two growing bodies of slime mold in the field (magnified 5 times).Their shape is like two people kissing.

Plankton are carefully arranged into circles through the hands of Stefano Barone, an Italian photographer, with a magnification of 100 times.

The head image of the orange ladybug by electronic engineer Geir Drange with a magnification of 10 times.

The nerve cells on the retina of a mouse radiate like the sun's rays (magnified 40 times).The author of the photo is Keunyoung Kim, a researcher at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

The poisonous canine image contains poison of Walter Piorkowski, photographer living in Illinois, USA (magnification 16 times).

Dylan Burnette, a researcher at Vanderbilt Medical University, USA, photographed cancer cells at the end of the cell division process.A mother cell is splitting into two daughter cells.

Francis Sneyers, Belgian photographer, photographed the underside of a butterfly with a magnification of 10 times.

The photo of Frontonia single-celled creature looks like a pizza (magnified 200 times) by Rogelio Moreno Gill, photographer in the Republic of Panama.We can see the different mouths, cilia, and food in the body.

Coffee crystalline substance was taken by Vin Kitayama, who runs the Vinsanchi Art Museum, Japan, and his wife, Sanae Kitayama.

Monoson Yahud, an Israeli photographer, took 100 different photographs of the binary of a wild flower, then combined it into a large photo with a magnification of 40 times.