“Many snowfalls bring only boring, irregular crystals, or completely covered by frozen bubbles of rime – these look thick and ...

However, [Nathan Myhrvold] didn’t use an ordinary microscope to capture some beautiful snowflake pictures. According to [My Modern Met], the pictures are the highest resolution snowflake ...

Image caption ... And if you’ve ever wondered why snow is white, that’s the light you’re seeing reflected by the plates and dendrites. Snowflakes are actually transparent.