One point which has me really excited is the new mapping of the
Dark Matter of the universe.
Once scientists finish the Hubble telescope's work mapping this web-like structure, I hope they begin to search for signs of Ungoliant, for as I recall she was a creature of the Void. What better place to find evidence of her than in the Dark Matter web? Clearly Tolkien was on to something when he posited a spider as a denizen of this part of the universe and suggested that it had a repulsive gravity.