A French scientist who promoted the image of "sausage" as a satellite image apologizes to his followers!

A French scientist has apologized after sharing a close-up of a slice of Spanish sausage, claiming it was an image of a distant star taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Etienne Klein, a famous physicist and director at the French Commission on Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy, shared the image of the spicy Spanish sausage on Twitter last week, praising the "level of detail" it provided. 4.2 light-years away from us. Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. This level of detail...a new world is being revealed every day."   

The physicist's comment and photo were seen by more than 91 thousand followers, and the post was retweeted and commented on by thousands of users.

But Klein later admitted in a follow-up series of tweets that the photo was, in fact, a close-up of a hot sausage taken against a black background.

"Well, it seems cognitive bias has a lot to enjoy...beware of that. According to contemporary cosmology, there is no organism associated with Spanish jerky anywhere other than on Earth."

But the physicist's confession, according to CNN, faced a violent reaction from followers, especially specialists, and Klein apologized on Wednesday for this hoax, saying that his intention was to "urge caution with regard to the images that appear to speak for themselves."

In an attempt to compensate, he published a picture of the amazing Cartwheel galaxy, assuring followers that the image is original this time.

The Webb Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever launched into space, officially began its science operations on July 12.

It will be able to look inside the envelopes of exoplanets and observe some of the first galaxies created after the universe began by viewing them through infrared light.

It is invisible to the human eye.

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