A physicist jokes and publishes a “photo” that provokes controversy. Look what you see?

After posting a photo he claimed was taken from a new NASA space telescope, French physicist Etienne Klein was forced to apologize for it, because it was actually a joke and the truth is completely different.

And Klein published a tweet on Twitter, as a joke, in which he said that it was the latest amazing image from the James Webb Telescope of the star “Proxima Centauri”, when in fact it was a slice of “sausage”.

The image appears as a cosmic red ball, filled with glowing solar storms, according to the British newspaper, “Daily Mail”.

As Klein wrote in the tweet: “Image of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, located 4.2 light-years away from us.”

Although some Twitter users were able to realize that the image posted by the eminent physicist was, in fact, a piece of sausage, the trick worked for many.

Klein found himself compelled to apologize, writing on Twitter, to his 89,200 followers: “In light of some of the comments, I am compelled to clarify that this tweet showing an alleged shot of Proxima Centauri was an amusement.”

Klein acknowledged that many users did not understand his “joke,” which he said was simply meant to encourage people to question and not automatically accept what was being offered.

Proxima Centauri is a dwarf star closest to the Sun.

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