A prominent scientist posted an image of a distant star he said was taken by the Webb telescope. It was actually a slice of chorizo.

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UPDATED ON: AUGUST 5, 2022 / 7:18 PM / CBS/AFP

A red ball of spicy fire with luminous patches glowing menacingly against a black background.

This, prominent French scientist Etienne Klein declared, was the latest astonishing picture taken by the James Webb Space Telescope of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun.

Fellow Twitter users marveled at the details on the picture purportedly taken by the telescope, which has thrilled the world with images of distant galaxies going back to the birth of the universe.

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