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 ...

A prominent French physicist has apologized after making a light-hearted joke in which he claimed that a slice of chorizo sausage was in fact a James Webb Space Telescope photo of Earth's nearest star ...

French physicist Étienne Klein posted a picture of a piece of chorizo and claimed it was a picture of the star, Proxima Centauri Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE.

Last month, a French physicist took to Twitter to share a photograph of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun. Marbled and carmine red, the picture, he said, had been taken by the James Webb ...

Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to our Sun, located just over four light-years away from Earth. Image: NASA If you’re not an expert on the cosmos, it’s very easy to confuse a view of a burning ...

French scientist Étienne Klein tweeted the image as a joke and a cautionary tale about fake news, but it seems some people took him seriously. When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, ...

A French scientist has apologized after claiming a photo of a piece of Spanish chorizo was actually of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun. On Sunday, physicist Étienne Klein tweeted a photo ...

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A French scientist has apologized after tweeting a photo of a slice of chorizo, claiming it was an image of a distant star taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. Étienne Klein, a celebrated ...