Guess what It Is

[Rich O Brien]

Looks like a series of pics showing a solar eclipse merged into one photo

but i know i'm so far off the mark that i deserved to be flogged

[remus]

Wrong end of the scale

[solo]

The last thing you see on this earth before a Jeep hits you?

[linea]

Death by Audi?

[EscapeArtist]

Pictures of atoms?

[TIG]

Looks a bit like a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of 5 linearly-fused benzene rings ?

[Jim]

@tig said:

Looks a bit like a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of 5 linearly-fused benzene rings ?

You beat me to it - I was just going to say the same thing.

[d12dozr]

@solo said:

The last thing you see on this earth before a Jeep hits you?

Hint: I saw it on PopSci's front page yesterday...

[remus]

@escapeartist said:

Pictures of atoms?

Closest yet, need to be more specific though.

[Mike Lucey]

Probably something that we will have inside our computers in a few years time?

[remus]

Possibly, but it's better known for it's possible uses in other areas.

[Alan Fraser]

Nicely aligned in a matrix. looks like Carbon atoms to me.

[remus]

Well spotted alan.

Carbon nano tunes pictured with an atomic force microscope: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8225491.stm

[Aerilius]

At least I think it's neither anthracene nor tetracene...

Maybe you think about something that interacts with sun light?

[Alan Fraser]

Wow. Just read about atomic force microscopes. That is seriously impressive technology...imaging something by wiggling a tuning fork at it and picking up the disturbances caused by nearby atoms.

[Aerilius]

And also impressive the last paragraph: combining the two techniques. If they can map the structure and also distinguish the elements, I would not need anymore to struggle with those spectra:

That's like if you take a single molecule in your hands, touch it and feel the structure.