You know what they say – it’s inner beauty that counts. And these sea stars definitely shine from the inside out!

Researchers Mo Turner and Cassandra Donatelli at Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington have started an initiative to CT scan all sea stars to learn more about what they look like on the inside and what that can tell us about their structure and ecology. Learn more about this project in today’s comic: #ScanAllStars

Want more? Follow #ScanAllStars on twitter to see the latest from this project newly introduced at this year’s Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting.