Infant star HOPS-315 is in the process of producing orbiting rocky planets similar to those surrounding the sun that shines on humans, according to astronomers from the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands and others at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The newly discovered star is between 100,000 and 200,000 years old, just a baby in cosmic terms. Information gathered from this star in the neighborhood of Orion may help astronomers to determine how our own star and planets formed.
Credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al.
Once studies have come to scientific conclusions about this event astronomers will be able to _________? What will be the use of the information gathered? Will it somehow improve life on earth in ways yet to be understood? When it is known for sure that earth, Venus, Mars, etc. were formed in the same way will the investment made in astronomical research be put to use in any practical manner? Will analysis of something 420 parsecs (1369.67 light years) from the Atacama Large Millimeter-submillmeter Array in Chile actually modify any aspect of life for anyone but an astronomer in this corner of the cosmos? Can there be justification for the use of mandatory confiscation of taxes from the general public for research that has no bearing on their lives and never will.
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