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?

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Usually discovery and research in physics and other sciencea doesn’t come with a practical application in mind. But sometimes the application comes years later to amazing results. Einstein didn’t have LED screens when he discovered the Photoelectric effect. The apollo missions gave us amazing advances in almost all area of science.