Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli

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...

Does anyone else feel like BBC writing has gone into the loo lately? Popular science reporting doesn't need to sound like sixth grade book report filler.

> Who knows? It might even get us closer to understanding those cosmic head-scratchers "dark energy" and "dark matter" which appear to be controlling the evolution of so much of what we see when we look up.

Gah, really?

is it me, or does the photo of broccoli look decidedly unimpressive in the article!