Chuck GPT: Answering Eerie Questions

But first, indeed, Stacey selected today's joyful, cosmic, cool thing.

And so I really want to highlight it.

And Stacey, do you remember what you saw? Oh, sorry, sorry.

Stacey, do you remember what you saw? It was about little red dots.

In black holes.

And I mean, who doesn't love a black hole?

Black holes are great.

Yes, they do not suck, literally.

But that's another conversation.

Here's the story, everybody.

The JWST, right, that NASA and European Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency have been working on for a long time, has a number of excellent scientific projects going on.

One of them, led by scientists from Canada, is called CANUCS.

All right, don't tell me, don't ask me what the acronym stands for, but it's C-A-N-U-C-S.

One of those astronomy acronyms that's incredibly tortured.

Right.

But in any case, one of the things that they have tried to do in the Canucks survey is to find distant galaxies in the backgrounds of rich clusters of galaxies.

Now, these clusters of galaxies are already billions of light years away, but they act as a natural gravitational lens that will magnify the light of even more distant galaxies behind them.

and cause them to be brighter, or just barely bright enough for us to see.

So we're using a cosmic telescope on top of a human-made telescope to try to see what is in the very early reaches of the universe, even less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

So it's really, really quite amazing.

You know what? I care enough about what Canucks stand for.

Can somebody look up what Canucks stands for? And we can say it on the show.

I think it has been looked up at this point.

Okay.

And so what is it?