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Since 2022, hundreds of tiny red spots dot some of the images reported by James Webb, without the scientific community having agreed on their true nature. Dozens of studies are underway to determine what they really are, but an international team of researchers has just published one that could finally put astronomers and astrophysicists on the right track.