S8 Ep321: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY: GUEST DINESH NANDAL. The James Webb Telescope and the Mystery of "Little Red Dots". Cosmologist Devesh Nandal explains the James Webb telescope's discovery of "little red dots" dating back over 13 billion years. These dots represe
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
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1783. METEOR OF AUGUST OBSERVED FROM PARIS
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, speaking to cosmologist Denish Nandall of the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard and the Smithsonian about the recent discovery by the James Webb Telescope of Little Red Dots, early universe, more than 13 billion years, light years away, more than 13 billion light years old. |
| 0:21.3 | What are the little red dots? |
| 0:23.3 | He explains the most successful working theory so far, the beginnings of a galaxy. |
| 0:30.4 | Little red dots, the first stars. |
| 0:32.7 | How big? |
| 0:33.8 | Way bigger than imaginable. |
| 0:36.5 | He explains, Denizanish Nandal. |
| 0:39.2 | This is early, early speculation, but it's very good. |
| 0:42.9 | It's backed up by observation so far. |
| 0:46.2 | Little red dots. |
| 0:47.5 | The beginning? |
| 0:48.4 | Question mark. |
| 0:49.8 | And how many are there? |
| 0:50.8 | How many were there? |
| 0:52.1 | Are they still out there? |
| 0:55.7 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:04.7 | I mean, the problem is, you know, that you have a monolithic British media, think tank world, |
| 1:13.0 | heavily influenced by the British military industrial complex, which is, of course, frantic for more money. |
| 1:19.1 | And really, I mean, there is almost nobody in Britain at a senior level. I mean, I can name and number them on less than the fingers of one hand, who would actually |
| 1:25.9 | tell Stama and his government the truth about the dangers that |
| 1:30.9 | they're running. |
| 1:32.0 | And so obviously, I mean, if you have an atmosphere as monolithic as that, you're not going |
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