A moth's eye is the inspiration behind the technology that allows a new NASA-developed camera to create images of astronomical objects with far greater sensitivity than was previously possible. These images taken with a scanning electron microscope show details of a new absorber that is enabling observations by the High-Resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-plus, or HAWC+, a new SOFIA instrument. The "spikes" were inspired by the structure of a moth's eye. Courtesy of NASA. 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