Micro to Macro: From the Extremely Large to the Incredibly Small | NASA Chandra
To explore, we need to keep our senses open. By developing new “eyesˮ for the very large and the very small, scientists have made new discoveries in science, technology, and engineering. A new partnership demonstrates this commitment to exploration by contrasting example images from the worldʼs most powerful telescopes with those produced by high-powered modern microscopes.
This large versus small comparison lets us see the world and the universe in new ways. We can consider ideas like, what does the eye of a fruit fly have in common with the remains of an exploded star? What about a cell line and a planetary nebula? How do we capture images of things we cannot see directly? The possibilities, to use a cliché, are infinite.
This fall, staff from NASAʼs Chandra X-ray Observatory—the worldʼs premier telescope that detects X-rays from space—worked with images from Nikon Small World, a free microscopy imaging competition, to present similarities and differences between the micro and the macro.
Explore all of the images at: https://chandra.si.edu/micro/pairs.html
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is being canceled in NASA's Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request, along with 18 other active science missions. NASA's science budget is being reduced by nearly 50%. NASA's total budget will become the lowest since 1961, after accounting for inflation.
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: Dec. 15, 2025
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