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Museum of Science
Our friend Chloe Savard, known as tardibabe on Instagram, takes us into the inner skin of an onion, peeled down to a single cell layer, so thin that light passes straight through it. That's what makes it perfect for microscopy.
It stores water, nutrients, and waste, and it's basically what gives an onion its crunch.
That little oval structure you can spot floating inside a cell? That's the nucleus, the control room, holding all the DNA.
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The tiny dot within it is the nucleolus, which builds the ribosomes that make every protein in the cell. The purple glow comes from polarized light, which turns a transparent sliver of onion into something that looks like stained glass.
Life is everywhere. Even on your cutting board.
