Friday beautiful science

Well, we can debate whether or not this qualifies as "beautiful" or not, but I certainly think it's cool. This little guy (about 2 μm across) won the "Most Bizarre" award at the 2005 49th International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication Bizarre/Beautiful Micrograph Contest. The photograph title, Chisai Benjo, means "small toilet" in Japanese.