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Distant Star or Smoked Sausage? Astronomer Apologizes After Joke Tweet Goes Viral


French physicist Étienne Klein recently trolled his followers on Twitter by posting a picture of a Chorizo slice, and claiming that it was the star Proxima Centauri as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). “This level of detail… A new world is revealed day after day,” Klein wrote on Twitter
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Ducky · 31-35, F
Why would you apologize for a joke like that? Did people who mistook it for a star get their feelings hurt or something?
Convivial · 26-30, F
@Ducky i think because as a scientist , misleading people on purpose, even as as (to me) a very funny joke, goes against the grain...
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@Convivial It worked for all of those moon landings.