It just keeps coming. The busiest telescope anywhere, the James Webb Space Telescope, has identified an exoplanet that has never been noticed before. Maybe that's because it's a relatively new planet, about 6 million years old, but is only 110 light years away from earth , orbiting the star Antlia.
"Webb opens a new window - in terms of mass and the distance of a planet to the star - of exoplanets that had not been accessible to observations so far. This is important to explore the diversity of exoplanetary systems and understand how they form and evolve," said astronomer Anne-Marie Lagrange of the French research agency CNRS and LIRA/Observatoire de Paris, lead author of the study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.
How is it important to explore the diversity of exoplanetary systems and understand how they form and evolve? If the understanding actually occurs, then what? Studies that take place outside the solar system, or even in it, are academic exercises with no foreseeable utility for ordinary earthlings. The knowledge of an exoplanet has no bearing on anything on earth except the activities of researchers and manufacturers of their equipment. It's a hugely expensive and meaningless thing that's basically an extension of other smaller frauds that do affect the general population. Radon abatement, ozone depletion, and hydrocarbon elimination are prominent examples.
Knowledge that's been acquired by humans through the centuries is ignored in favor of the novelties of current academia. No one reads even 19th century thinking of philosphers and scientists like Herbert Spencer, Henri Bergson, Henry George and others. The findings of astro-physicists will do nothing to improve the life of anyone on earth now or in the future.
Furthermore, there are many things that we don't understand here on earth. Our efforts, and money, should be directed at solving these problelms. .
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