A microscope that makes it possible to acquire a hyperspectral image with high data precision includes a light source, an illumination optical system, an image-forming optical system, an imaging unit, a spectroscope, a stage, a drive unit, and a control unit. The illumination optical system converges, at a converging angle θ, illuminating light in a wavelength band included in the near-infrared region output from the light source, and emits the converged illuminating light onto the object being observed. The image-forming optical system forms an image based on transmitted and scattered light generated by the observed object by emission of the illuminating light onto the observed object. The sin θ is set to a value that does not exceed the numerical aperture of an objective lens that receives the transmitted and scattered light from the observed object.