Etienne Klein, Director of the French Atomic Energy Commission, admitted that the image, which he claimed came from NASA’s telescope James Webb, belonged to a sausage. Klein apologized after the incident.
The James Webb Space Telescope, which NASA launched into space and started giving images last month, was used for an interesting joke.
He suggested the image came from James Webb
Philosopher and physicist Etienne Klein announced on social media platform Twitter on July 31 that Proxima Centauri star James Webb It claimed to be the latest photograph taken by the Space Telescope and shared an image.
“Photo of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun”
Klein, in his post, “Photo of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, 4.2 light-years from us” said.
It turned out to be sausage
But your photo is from Spanish cuisine ‘chorizo’ It turned out that it belonged to a sausage (a spicy pork sausage) known as
Although some social media users believed the photo published by the physicist, many people stated that the image was actually a slice of sausage.
He said “I was kidding”, he apologized
According to the Daily Mail’s report Klein admitted that he was joking and that the image actually belonged to a sausage. “No object of the Spanish delicatessen is found anywhere else in the world” stated.
Making another statement later, Klein said that he made such a post to draw attention to misinformation on social media and apologized to his followers.
James Webb telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is known for being a space telescope for infrared astronomy. It is the most powerful telescope ever sent into space. Planned to be the partial successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope, it was developed under NASA leadership and with support from ESA and CSA. It was launched in December 2021 and entered orbit in January 2022.
Named after James E. Webb, NASA’s director of the Apollo program in 2002, the JWST is an infrared telescope equipped with a 6.5-metre-wide gold-plated mirror. This mirror makes it possible to see 13.5 billion light-years away, that is, when the first stars of the universe were formed.
JWST is a joint project of 15 different states, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, under the chairmanship of NASA. Tuned to observe infrared light, this 6.5-metre telescope is placed in orbit almost 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. This distance is four times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
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