This is not photoshop, no clever graphics, no movie scene… it‘s a hydrothermal worm.

And it‘s a real creature.

It‘s just really, really small. So small in fact, that this image comes from an electron microscope.

Taken using an FEI Quanta SEM, this image is amazingly zoomed in 525 times. The real width of the field in the image is 568μm, or 568/1000 of a millimeter. It‘s far larger than an atom, but still among the smallest living things.