Seeing Stars

 A very cool feature of a few beaches in Japan is the star sand which looks just like regular sand at a glance but upon closer inspection one can see that the sand is shaped like stars. Most sand is made up of rocks, minerals and ground down coral but the star sand is the tiny exoskeletons of single cell organisms known as Foraminifera. Move over Hawaii's black sand, green sand and red sand beaches Japan is home to the stars!