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This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague, Ken Croswell, an astronomer,

writing in science news about a discovery called Little Red Dots.

Where do they come from?

Earliest Universe.

This is the James Webb Space Telescope, picking them up, never seen before.

There are lots of them.

What are they?

They're galaxies.

Ken explains the origin of galaxies, our theory about halos and dark matter, gravity, dust, and little red dots.

Here's Ken to give you what never existed before the discovery by the James Webb Space telescope, little red dots, very close in to the beginning, the bang.

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