There are many types of snowflake, all of them with extraordinary internal structures.
These photos were taken by Kenneth Libbrecht of CalTech, using a specially-designed snowflake photomicroscope. They show real snow crystals that fell to earth in northern Ontario, Alaska, Vermont, the Michigan Upper Peninsula, and the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.

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13 images of different kinds of snowflakes at NewScientist

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