I welcome my good colleague Ken Croswell, Dr. Ken Croswell, author of The Lives of Stars and other distinguished publications, an astronomer, writing most recently about a discovery that's just posted for the first time ever in science news, the write-up.

It's published at the Journal of Astrophysical Journal Letters

by Avi Loeb, the well-known Harvard astronomer, and his colleague Fabio Puguchi.

It's about something that renders itself metaphorically, easy to say,

little red dots.

Ken, a very good evening to you. The James Webb Space Telescope keeps coming up with revelations

that no one imagined existed before. Little red dots. What is it discovered? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Well, as mentioned in this

science news story, the James Webb Space Telescope surprised everyone by discovering all of these

little red dots. They are distant galaxies, very distant galaxies, that proliferated

when the universe was only 640 million to 1.5 billion years old.

They're very small, which, why we call them little, they're very red.

And they look like dots, and they're all over the place.

We now know of hundreds of them.

And we're not exactly sure what they are, but they must be telling us something about how

galaxies formed and have evolved over time.

And we'd really like to understand why these objects exist and what they've turned into

in the modern universe.

640 million years is awfully, awfully close. And finding something existing at

that level, does it suggest that there are more of them if we look for them? Well, this new theory

proposed by these two Harvard astronomers says, yes, if we take deeper exposures with the James Webb

Space Telescope, they predict we should see even more of these little red dots.

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