A child enjoys a bath in a horse feeding tub near Settle, North Yorkshire, on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, as he and his family, from Accrington, Lancashire, head to Appleby, Cumbria, for the world-famous Appleby Horse Fair, which starts a week on Thursday, 9 June 2022. (Photo by Lorne Campbell/Guzelian)

Store owner Sidney Graham removes storm damage debris at Living Loved Lash and Body Studio on West Walnut Avenue Sunday, May 26, 2024, in Rogers, Ark. Powerful storms left a wide trail of destruction across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. (Photo by Charlie Kaijo/The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP Photo)

Miley Cyrus performs onstage during the 2021 Music Midtown festival at Piedmont Park on September 19, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for MC)

Wild deer rummage through garbage dumped at an open ground in Sri Lanka's district of Trincomalee on April 4, 2023. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)

A gull gives its familiar cry on the roof of a beach bar on the Baltic coast on July 16, 2024. (Photo by Jens Büttner/dpa)

A Sri Lankan man use a scarf as a protective mask as he waits for a swab test at a locked-down area in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 14 May 2020. The Sri Lankan government has started lifting most of the restrictions implemented nearly two months ago in a bid to slow down the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causing the COVID-19 disease and is preparing for a full reopening of businesses and a resumption of activities to avoid an economic slump. (Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Protesters a demonstration of the LGTBI collective in Madrid on November 20, 2021 against the rise of the fascism in the society and in support of the new transgender law in Spain. (Photo by Celestino Arce Lavin/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Most people know Nikon as a purveyor of pro and consumer-grade digital cameras. But the company's expertise with optics bleeds over into related markets – it's one of the science community's major suppliers of microscopes. And each year the company asks the community to send it some of their favorite images of tiny objects. A panel of scientists and journalists have chosen the best of this past year's submissions, which Nikon has placed on its Small World site.

Photo: Honorable Mention. “Snow crystal, illuminated with colored lights (5x)”. (Photo by Dr. Kenneth Libbrecht, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Department of Physics, Pasadena, California, USA)