Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Staphylococcus aureus

Bacteria

Bacterial cells of Staphylococcus aureus, magnified 50,000 times. S. aureus is one of the causal agents of mastitis in dairy cows. Its large capsule protects the organism from attack by the cow’s immunological defenses.

Extremely high-detailed image of Staphylococcus aureus bacterial cells, captured by a transmission electron microscope, magnified 50,000 times. The original 60MB source file is 4000x5000. If anyone can improve the sharpness while keeping the image large, feel free; it should be pretty easy.

• Nominate and support. - BRIAN0918 19:14, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
• Question: You say SEM but the description says TEM. Which is it? —Keenan Pepper 02:36, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Oops, my bad. It's transmission electron microscopy. — BRIAN0918 • 2006-07-23 02:39
• Support now that that's settled. —Keenan Pepper 02:55, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Support -- Chris 73 | Talk 06:38, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Support - Wonderful HighInBC 15:48, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - I know that the source says TEM, but I'd swear that's not a TEM picture! I'm not sure that there's any way to resolve it, just saying. InvictaHOG 06:49, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
  • You can email the three people at the bottom of that page; they'll know. — BRIAN0918 • 2006-07-24 06:52
• Support. Detail is astounding. Very interesting. -- AJ24 16:27, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Good quality and very unique, wikipedia would benefit from more images like this!.--WikipedianProlific^(Talk) 19:13, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Weak support - nice, but could be better illustrated in false colour - Jack (talk) 21:40, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Staphylococcus aureus, 50,000x, USDA, ARS, EMU.jpg Raven4x4x 09:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)