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What we're seeing here is a deep

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look at a newborn star. So we're looking with some of Hubble's

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instruments, its cameras, at a small region in the Orion star-forming region.

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We're seeing a baby star with material that's collapsing onto the star from gravity.

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And it's causing jets of material to spew out its poles, a bipolar

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outflow at supersonic speeds. It looks like a double-bladed "lightsaber."

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[Laughing] Hubble has never actually seen

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a 'Death Star' as you see in Star Wars. But we certainly

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are able to look at regions where stars are in their death throws.

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And those are some of the most beautiful image that Hubble has captured because as

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stars die they spew material out into the interstellar medium.

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They're actually enriching the area around them. And when new stars form the chemicals

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that come from the older stars are in the mix of the new stars.

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So you're seeing some stars as they're spewing out their last layers

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calmly and others supernova remnants as the star explodes. And when we

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have a supernova explosion happening that's the type of force that would

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anilate planets around it just like a death star might.

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The future for Hubble is very bright. It was serviced by astronauts

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five times on orbit, most recently in 2009.

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left it at the peak of its scientific capabilities. And we're working hard

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on the ground to keep it going until the year 2020 and beyond. We want to have

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some overlap time with the next thing, the James Webb Space Telescope

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which will launch in 2018 and will take pictures in the infrared

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beyond the visible. And when we're able to peer inside regions with the visible

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and the infrared we're really going to be able to uncover the layers and see what's

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going on in there. [No audio]

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[No audo] That's a great

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question. Of course Star Wars showed us a variety of worlds. Ice worlds

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forest worlds, desert worlds. And Hubble has been able to look at some

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of the worlds in our own solar system, right around our own backyard. So we've

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looked at Mars and seen storms there. We're looked at Jupiter. We see Jupiter

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evolving. We see the cloud structures on it evolving, the great red spot

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shrinking. We see evidence for water oceans on the

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moons around Jupiter just like there were moons where there was civilizations

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in Star Wars. We're seeing moons with water in our own solar system.

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And we're also starting to take those first steps beyond and look at planets around other stars.

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with Hubble.

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[No audio] So we're actually with Hubble

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able to get a real sense of the life cycles of galaxies through the history

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of the universe. We're now learning that galaxies commonly collide

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and that there's a certain sequence. You know younger galaxies look

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very different than the galaxies around us today, the more modern galaxies

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And it's the same concept when we look inside of our own galaxy.

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at the star forming regions or where stars have died. We're looking at the

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life cycle of stars and we're getting this beautiful coherent picture together

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of how the sun formed, the solar system and what that

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means in the place and context of everything else in the universe when it formed and how it

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evolves.

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[No audio] Well there's a vast archive

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of images at nasa.gov/hubble.

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Anything from the solar system all the way out to the edges of the universe.