Yesterday, when I was looking at my slide through my microscope, I saw that my slide was actually looking at me back! It looks like a scene from a sci-fi movie. 😂 . This is a compound eye of a tiny freshwater crustacean magnified 630 times. Can you see the muscles controlling the eye? It's just fascinating! . It has only one, giant, eye. The tiny cake slices kinda looking things inside the eye is called ommatidia and they are visual subunits of the compound eye where the light information from