Comment by dylan604

> I assume it's important because we expected nothing and there was something?

I'm still impressed that in my life time, this keeps happening. The best/obvious example is Hubble's original Deep Field. It was a patch of sky assumed to have nothing in it, and most were happy with that answer. To the point, it was a difficult process to get the scope time to aim the very expensive space telescope at nothing essentially just for the lulz. Now that JWST is online, it is constantly getting "for the first time" results.

It's not quite Luis and Clark, but the astronomers using JWST are discovering new parts of the universe that confounds our current expectations.