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Looks familiar? This striking close-up of a dragonfly is just one of the stars in Heaven and Earth, a book that plays tricks with scale. From the stunning bacterium Escherichia coli magnified 30,000 times to the Milky Way at infrared wavelengths, with each turn of the page you’ll want more

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