A photo tweeted by a famous French physicist – supposedly taken by the James Webb Space Telescope of the star Proxima Centauri – 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. “This level of detail,” Klein wrote. “A new world is revealed day after day.” The tweet was liked and retweeted thousands of times before he revealed he was trolling and that the photo in fact showed a slice of sausage, not Proxima Centauri.⁠ ⁠ Klein told French news outlet Le Point that his intention had been to educate people about fake news online, adding, “I also think that if I hadn't said it was a James Webb photo, it wouldn't have been so successful.”