A red ball of fire, glowing menacingly against a black background. This, prominent French scientist Etienne Klein declared, was the latest astonishing picture taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun. In fact, the object came from Klein's fridge!
Enthusiastic Twitter users marvelled at the details on the picture purportedly taken by the telescope, which has thrilled the world with images of distant galaxies going back to the birth of the universe.
