Vinyl record grooves shot under an electron
microscope taken by Chris Supranowitz who is a researcher based at the
Institute of Optics, University of Rochester. Here is a shot of a number of record grooves (the
dark bits are the top of the grooves, i.e. the uncut vinyl):
The grooves magnified 500x - the little bumps are dust on the record:
And here's a single groove even closer still,
magnified 1000 times:
(via Pete Brook)