A French scientist has had to apologize after he tweeted out a picture he claimed was a distant star captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, but it was actually a slice of chorizo.
Etienne Klein, the director of France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, shared the picture last week.
He didn’t just share it; Klein captioned the pic in part with “This level of detail…A new world is unveiled everyday.” Klein apologized in later tweets, saying it was a “form of amusement,” and adding that “According to contemporary cosmology, no object related to Spanish charcuterie exists anywhere else other than on Earth.”
Source: New York Post