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>>INTERVIEWER: Far far away in our own galaxy cosmic forces are awakening in a new

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born star. NASA has just released a new image from Hubble a newborn star

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Hubble Space Telescope that shows us this cosmic lightsaber, and here to tell us about

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more about what we're seeing is Dr. Padi Boyd at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Thanks for joining us. >>PADI: Sure my pleasure. So NASA just released

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this new image that some are calling a cosmic lightsaber. What we are seeing in this image

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this is actually a region in our galaxy pretty close by

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in the Orion star-forming region, so it's like a near neighbor.

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And what we're looking at here is a very young star, a newborn baby star, in a frantic

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feeding frenzy. That material around the star is actually accreting due to gravity

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and it's spewing out along the two poles, these are called bipolar jets,

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or bipolar outflows. Material coming out at supersonic speeds, and it looks

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uncanny, like a double-bladed light saber.

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>>INTERVIEWER: What are Hubble's most beautiful images of stars and galaxies far, far away?

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>>PADI: Well Hubble has taken some really impressive images of nearby galaxies

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spirals just like our own, where you can see these star-forming regions

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as a whole lighting up the galaxy. You see galaxies

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colliding as they evolve, and also that starts new star formation.

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And when we do a core sample of the universe, this Hubble Deep Field,

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we can actually see 10,000 galaxies at all different stages of evolutional

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from about the earliest times when we think galaxies started to form, all the way up to the current

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time. >>INTERVIEWER: Now, has Hubble ever seen a death star?

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Padi: We haven't actually seen a Death Star like you have in the movies, but

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we certainly do have the ability to watch stars as they evolve and go into their deaths

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rows. We know that massive stars and supernovae

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smaller stars gently eject their outer layers into space.

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This is a supernova remnant from the Crab. And that material is actually

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reinvigorating the space around it with materials that new stars then pick up

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as they're being born. Interviewer: Now has Hubble shown us any interesting worlds?

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>>PADI: Hubble has shown us an amazing diversity of worlds, starting right here

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in our own Solar System. And because it's been 25 years in orbit,

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we're able to watch systems evolve on our nearest neighbor planet. We can watch

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weather patterns on Mars and the clouds and the Red Spot on Jupiter.

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And in just incredible detail now from the cameras that we have on board.

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And we can look at the moons of Jupiter and see evidence for water vapor

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shooting out there. We're seeing a diversity of worlds in our Solar System and even beyond.

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>>INTERVIEWER: Now like Star Wars, Hubble is a classic and has been showing us amazing

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images. What does the future hold for Hubble? >>PADI: Hubble has an incredibly

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bright future, you know it's operating at the peak of its capabilities today.

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It's a very exciting space to be. Astronauts serviced the telescope five

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times, and they left it with very new, advanced cameras

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and computer systems and power systems, so scientists have plenty of ideas

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for how to use the telescope in new and exciting ways as the field of astrophysics

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evolves, and we're looking forward to a future where in operation

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with the new Webb telescope which is set to launch in 2018, so we'll have both these

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beautiful telescopes peering at the universe at the same time and giving us new insights.

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>>INTERVIEWER: Where we can we see more of Hubble's amazing images? >>PADI: So you can see the

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image that we released today, all the images we spoke about, and many many more

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in a huge archive of images at nasa.gov/hubble.

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>>INTERVIEWER: Great, thanks so much for joining us. Padi: My pleasure.

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