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Re:Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli by danbruc on Thursday September 10, 2020 @07:25PM (#24437661)
Here is the SLAC news article [1] and the zoomable picture of the romanesco [2]. The picture itself is quite underwhelming - certainly an artifact of how it was created using a pinhole but your phone can capture a better picture of a romanesco.

Besides that, where do the different kind of artifacts - interference fringes, dark and bright vertical lines, white specks - come from? Why are the interference fringes distributed pretty randomly? Dust on the sensor despite everyone wearing bunny suits?

[1] https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2020-09-08-sensors-world...

[2] https://www.slac.stanford.edu/~tonyj/osd/public/romanesco.ht...

Re:Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli by mgibbs63 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:37PM (#24438940)
Fun fact: the guy who made [2] is also the co-author of the first web page hosted in North America.
Re:Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli by copperx on Friday September 11, 2020 @11:09AM (#24443632)
That explains a lot.