Date uploaded: 2022-08-07 20:09:26
Spoiler: It's chorizo.
A French scientist apologized after tweeting a photo of a slice of chorizo that he claimed was a deep-space image of a "distant star" snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Étienne Klein, a physicist and research director at France's Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, shared the spicy Spanish sausage shot on social media last week, applauding the "level of detail" it provided.
A few days after his post, Klein revealed the photo he tweeted was not from the world’s most powerful space telescope. He admitted he tweeted a slice of the reddish, speckled meat.
"I feel compelled to clarify that this tweet showing an alleged snapshot of Proxima Centauri was a form of amusement. Let us learn to be wary of arguments from authority as much as of the spontaneous eloquence of certain images," he wrote, as translated by Google.
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