Hubble Spots A Real-Life 'Lightsaber' Of Cosmic Proportions
- 8 years ago
The Hubble Space Telescope recently caught a breathtaking image of a star erupting with massive force and spewing cosmic material in twin jets reminiscent of a double-bladed lightsaber.
An image recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the power of a young star, obscured in a shroud of smoky dust, twin jets of cosmic material blasting out of either side.
And it looks remarkably like a lightsaber.
According to NASA, "This celestial lightsaber lies not in a galaxy far, far away, but within our home galaxy, the Milky Way. More precisely, it resides within a turbulent patch of space known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, which is located just over 1350 light-years away."
The space agency
An image recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the power of a young star, obscured in a shroud of smoky dust, twin jets of cosmic material blasting out of either side.
And it looks remarkably like a lightsaber.
According to NASA, "This celestial lightsaber lies not in a galaxy far, far away, but within our home galaxy, the Milky Way. More precisely, it resides within a turbulent patch of space known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, which is located just over 1350 light-years away."
The space agency