It's basic research and has no immediate application for normal life if this is what you are wondering about. For astronomy, it is giving us a completely new w

It's basic research and has no immediate application for normal life if this is what you are wondering about. For astronomy, it is giving us a completely new way of observing the universe. Most other ways were based on different ways of observing electromagnetic radiation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research