French physicist shares photo of sausage as ‘Star’, sorry
A red fireball with glowing patches on a terrifying black background.
Distinguished French scientist Etienne Klein claims, this is the latest incredible image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun.
Fellow Twitter users marveled at the details in this photo taken by the telescope, which has wowed the world with images of distant galaxies going back to the birth of the universe. .
“This level of detail… A new world is revealed every day,” he sputtered.
But in fact, as Klein later revealed, the photo was not of the gravitational star just over four light-years from the Sun but a much more modest portion of a sizzling Spanish sausage.
“According to contemporary cosmology, no objects belonging to the Spanish charcuterie exist anywhere but on Earth,” he said.
Klein acknowledged that many users failed to understand his joke, which he said was simply meant to encourage us to “be wary of arguments from those in power and self-assertive rhetoric.” playback of some images”.
However, at a time when combating fake news is of paramount importance to the scientific community, many Twitter users say they don’t care about Klein, director of research for the Atomic Energy Commission. of France (CEA) and a radio program producer.
On Wednesday, he said sorry to those who had gone astray.
“I came to present my apologies to those who may have been shocked by my prank, which has nothing original about it,” he said, describing the post as a “house joke.” science”.
Soon after, he posted on Twitter an image of the famous Trolley Galaxy taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. This time, he assures users, the photo is real.
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