In light of everyone losing their minds over the great high resolution JWST images, what’s the functional application of this new information? Considering that we are so far away from even the closest star that interstellar travel is extremely unlikely, how does this new information help us?

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Let me state for the record that **I am not trolling**, and I am blown away by the imagery as much as the next person.
But what can we do with this new information? Where does it take us? How does it help us?

What’s next?

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This is only the beginning. We will be processing all the data from Hubble telescope still for years.

James Webb telescope will help us know the composition of thousands of exoplanets that future human species may one day call home. It will also help us understand more about the evolution of the universe and give more detailed images and better data than Hubble.