Snowflakes as you've never seen them before

Snowflakes as you’ve never seen them before - New Scientist:

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These snowflake photos were taken by Kenneth Libbrecht of CalTech, using a specially-designed snowflake photomicroscope. They show real snow crystals that fell to earth in northern Ontario, Alaska, Vermont, the Michigan Upper Peninsula, and the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.

(Via New Scientist.)