The detail, the exquisite delineation of the various regions:
Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil, située à 4,2 année-lumière de nous.
— Etienne KLEIN (@EtienneKlein) July 31, 2022
Elle a été prise par le JWST.
Ce niveau de détails… Un nouveau monde se dévoile jour après jour. pic.twitter.com/88UBbHDQ7Z
From The Miami Herald, August 5:
Scientist shares new ‘star’ photo — but admits it’s actually much closer to home
A prominent French scientist is apologizing after he posted a photo of what he called “the closest star to the Sun.” That’s because it turned out to be something much tastier instead. In the photo, posted July 31 to Twitter, a deep red orb with patches of orange swirling inside seemed to glow against an all-black background.
Claiming the photo came from the James Webb Telescope, the scientist, Etienne Klein, accompanied the image with this message: “This level of detail… A new world is revealed day after day.”Except the photo was not of the star Proxima Centauri.
It was a slice of chorizo, a spicy Spanish sausage, Klein admitted in a later tweet. Many people did not get the joke, The Local reported, and some who did criticized the scientist for misleading people at a time when scientific communities are “battling fake news.” Klein, who is a research director at France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, said the photo was a “form of amusement....
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Or was that Galileo?
Anyhoo, I'm sure this was Mr. Murphy:
Watch as a Master Trolls the Trolls: Pluto Edition
Some say "Don't feed the trolls".
Hah!
Here Paul Murphy doesn't just chum them in.
He gets 'em close and then shoves the gavage tube down their troll
throats to force-feed the little buggers and create a 42-comment foie
gras....
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