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

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star seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, and here to show us this new

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image and tell us a little more about Hubble is Dr. Deborah Padgett, NASA's Goddard

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Space Flight Center. Thanks for joining us. >>DEBORAH: Thank you. [lightsaber noise]

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[lightsaber turns off]

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>>INTERVIEWER: So NASA released a new image that some are calling

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a "cosmic lightsaber". What are you seeing in this image? >>DEBORAH: Ok, well

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deep inside a dark, dusty cloud near the Orion Nebula,

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new stars are being formed as gas collapses under gravity

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to form a baby star.

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Most of that material falls directly onto the star, but some of it

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interacts with the magnetic field of the star and shoots out on the star's

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poles, like a double-bladed lightsaber slicing through the clouds.

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>>INTERVIEWER: Can you show us some of Hubble's most beautiful images of

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stars and galaxies far, far away? >>DEBORAH: Well, we just saw

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an image of a star-forming region in our galaxy, but as you look outside

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of our galaxy, you see other galaxies like our own barred-spiral

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with star formation along the arms of the spiral. When some of these

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galaxies collide, it triggers a tremendous burst of star formation,

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and when Hubble focused in on a tiny patch of the sky,

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for, and looked at it for 10 days, we saw 10,000

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galaxies. And these are truly galaxies a long time ago far, far away.

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>>INTERVIEWER: Now, has Hubble ever seen a Death Star?

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>>DEBORAH: Hubble has seen a lot of death stars. And by "death star" what I mean is a

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dieing star that undergoes a tremendous explosion or

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eruption and spreads material throughout the interstellar medium.

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We see stars that are making big shells of dust

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that is going out, we see supernovae that can be as bright as an entire

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galaxy, and as that material goes out and mixes in with

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the nebula that are already there, it brings in material that is necessary

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for the formation of life. >>INTERVIEWER: Has Hubble shown us any interesting

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worlds? >>DEBORAH: Hubble has shown us amazing details of

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the fascinating worlds of our Solar System. Like Star

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Wars has desert planets and jungle planets, we have a desert planet,

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Mars, that's very interesting to us. We have our own Jupiter

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a giant planet, we see this beautiful 4k movie

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of Jupiter that was taken by Hubble. And Jupiter has a moon

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just like the fourth moon of Yavin, that is itself possibly a habitable world.

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at least for microbes. That would be Europa,

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

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amazing images. What does the future hold for Hubble?

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>>DEBORAH: Well, due to five servicing missions by astronauts, all the

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equipment on Hubble has been updated and renewed, and it's

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in its best shape ever, it's doing amazing work every year,

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scientists around the world compete to come up with new ideas

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for how to use Hubble. And in a few years in 2018, Hubble will be

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joined by its sister ship, the James Webb telescope, that will

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look further into the infrared, and together, they have a very bright future.

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>>INTERVIEWER: Where can we see more of Hubble's amazing images?

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>>DEBORAH: Okay, well if you go online to

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nasa.gov/hubble, or on Twitter @NASA_Hubble,

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you will see the Hubble images, the archive

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of the last quarter century worth of thousands and thousands of

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images and videos of things all over the universe.

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You could spend weeks. I certainly do. >>INTERVIEWER: Thanks

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so much for joining us! >>DEBORAH: And may the force be with you. >>INTERVIEWER: May

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the force be with you.