{"id":1591364,"date":"2022-08-05T16:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591364"},"modified":"2022-08-05T16:33:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:33:51","slug":"scientists-webb-space-telescope-pic-turns-out-to-be-delicious-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientists-webb-space-telescope-pic-turns-out-to-be-delicious-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist\u2019s Webb \u2018Space Telescope\u2019 Pic Turns Out To Be Delicious Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscientists-webb-space-telescope-pic-turns-out-to-be-delicious-hoax%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591364&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Those kooky astrophysicists and their madcap hijinks!<\/p>\n<p>A French scientist punked the internet Sunday with a tweet of what he said was a picture of a distant star taken by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/james-webb-telescope\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a>, only to admit later it was really just a slice of chorizo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPicture of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, located 4.2 light years away from us,\u201d \u00c9tienne Klein, director of France\u2019s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, told his nearly 100,000 Twitter followers. \u201cIt was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. This level of detail\u2026 A new world is unveiled everyday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l\u2019\u00e9toile la plus proche du Soleil, situ\u00e9e \u00e0 4,2 ann\u00e9e-lumi\u00e8re de nous.<br \/>Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 prise par le JWST.<br \/>Ce niveau de d\u00e9tails\u2026 Un nouveau monde se d\u00e9voile jour apr\u00e8s jour. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/88UBbHDQ7Z\">pic.twitter.com\/88UBbHDQ7Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Etienne KLEIN (@EtienneKlein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EtienneKlein\/status\/1553765864553472003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands commented on the flaming red image against a black background before Klein came clean about the piece of spicy Spanish sausage that would go great with a piece of the Moon, were it made of green cheese.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, when it\u2019s cocktail hour, cognitive bias seems to find plenty to enjoy\u2026\u201d he wrote. \u201cBeware of it. According to contemporary cosmology, no object related to Spanish charcuterie exists anywhere else other than on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Bon, quand sonne l\u2019heure de l\u2019ap\u00e9ritif, les biais cognitifs semblent s\u2019en donner \u00e0 c\u0153ur joie\u2026 Gare, donc, \u00e0 eux. Selon la cosmologie contemporaine, nul objet relevant de la charcuterie espagnole n\u2019existe ailleurs que sur Terre.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Etienne KLEIN (@EtienneKlein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EtienneKlein\/status\/1553779203652435970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Klein apologized Wednesday for the hoax, saying he only meant \u201cto urge caution regarding images that seem to speak for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Webb telescope, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/will-absolutely-blow-hubble-out-of-the-water-new-photos-from-largest-space-telescope-ever-shows-colors-never-seen-before\">most powerful ever launched into space<\/a>, began scouring the universe on July 12. Scientists believe it will allow them to observe some of the first galaxies created by the Big Bang.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, just days after the telescope began sending images back to Earth, it helped scientists\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oldest-galaxy-ever-discovered-found-by-james-webb-space-telescope\">discover a galaxy<\/a> so old it predates the previously oldest known galaxy by roughly 100 million years. The newly-discovered galaxy has been named GLASS-z13, and it came into existence just 300 million years after the Big Bang, which occurred nearly 14 billion years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJWST has potentially smashed records, spotting a galaxy which existed when the universe was a mere 300 million years old!\u201d former NASA scientist James O\u2019Donoghue enthused. \u201cThe light from GLASS-z13 took 13.4 billion years to hit us, but the distance between us is now 33 billion light years due to the expansion of the universe!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Hank Berrien contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those kooky astrophysicists and their madcap hijinks! A French scientist punked the internet Sunday with a tweet of what he said was a picture of a distant star taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, only to admit later it was really just a slice of chorizo. \u201cPicture of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1591453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}