Here's a micrograph that I snapped way back in December 2004. 
This is a picture of a mouse fibroblasts, a cell type found in connective tissue. The chocolate chip like circles are cells' nuclei where DNA is stored. The chips in each cookie, are nucleoli where ribosomes are manufactured. I took this micrograph in the middle of a microinjection experiment because I notice the heart shaped nucleolus (actually it looks like 3 nucleoli that are in close proximity) and just had to record this freakish event.
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nice picture Alex!
I like the ghost above the heart.
You're all wrong. It's a heart cell and God did it.