Why do you think astronomers would want to devote so much precious telescope time to observing totally ordinary regions of the sky in such great detail? why do you think astronomers would want to devote so much precious telescope time to observing totally ordinary regions of the sky in such great detail? astronomers just like this process. there were the signs of unique event happening in this part of the sky that were not confirmed. statistics tells something about objects that are not in the statistical sample?