French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo

A photo tweeted by a famous French physicist supposedly of Proxima Centauri by the James Webb Space Telescope was actually a slice of chorizo.

Étienne Klein, research director at France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission posted the photo last week, claiming it showed the closest star to the sun. 

via www.vice.com

That's not funny.