1 00:00:00,190 --> 00:00:04,380 >>INTERVIEWER: Far, far away in our own galaxy, cosmic forces are awakening in a newborn 2 00:00:04,380 --> 00:00:08,390 star seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, and here to show us this new 3 00:00:08,390 --> 00:00:12,420 image and tell us a little more about Hubble is Dr. Deborah Padgett, NASA's Goddard 4 00:00:12,420 --> 00:00:16,430 Space Flight Center. Thanks for joining us. >>DEBORAH: Thank you. [lightsaber noise] 5 00:00:16,430 --> 00:00:20,440 [lightsaber turns off] 6 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:24,440 >>INTERVIEWER: So NASA released a new image that some are calling 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,450 a "cosmic lightsaber". What are you seeing in this image? >>DEBORAH: Ok, well 8 00:00:28,450 --> 00:00:32,450 deep inside a dark, dusty cloud near the Orion Nebula, 9 00:00:32,450 --> 00:00:36,630 new stars are being formed as gas collapses under gravity 10 00:00:36,630 --> 00:00:40,650 to form a baby star. 11 00:00:40,650 --> 00:00:44,660 Most of that material falls directly onto the star, but some of it 12 00:00:44,660 --> 00:00:48,850 interacts with the magnetic field of the star and shoots out on the star's 13 00:00:48,850 --> 00:00:52,860 poles, like a double-bladed lightsaber slicing through the clouds. 14 00:00:52,860 --> 00:00:57,050 >>INTERVIEWER: Can you show us some of Hubble's most beautiful images of 15 00:00:57,050 --> 00:01:01,060 stars and galaxies far, far away? >>DEBORAH: Well, we just saw 16 00:01:01,060 --> 00:01:05,070 an image of a star-forming region in our galaxy, but as you look outside 17 00:01:05,070 --> 00:01:09,260 of our galaxy, you see other galaxies like our own barred-spiral 18 00:01:09,260 --> 00:01:13,290 with star formation along the arms of the spiral. When some of these 19 00:01:13,290 --> 00:01:17,470 galaxies collide, it triggers a tremendous burst of star formation, 20 00:01:17,470 --> 00:01:21,650 and when Hubble focused in on a tiny patch of the sky, 21 00:01:21,650 --> 00:01:25,670 for, and looked at it for 10 days, we saw 10,000 22 00:01:25,670 --> 00:01:29,690 galaxies. And these are truly galaxies a long time ago far, far away. 23 00:01:29,690 --> 00:01:33,700 >>INTERVIEWER: Now, has Hubble ever seen a Death Star? 24 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:37,910 >>DEBORAH: Hubble has seen a lot of death stars. And by "death star" what I mean is a 25 00:01:37,910 --> 00:01:42,090 dieing star that undergoes a tremendous explosion or 26 00:01:42,090 --> 00:01:46,110 eruption and spreads material throughout the interstellar medium. 27 00:01:46,110 --> 00:01:50,120 We see stars that are making big shells of dust 28 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,140 that is going out, we see supernovae that can be as bright as an entire 29 00:01:54,140 --> 00:01:58,330 galaxy, and as that material goes out and mixes in with 30 00:01:58,330 --> 00:02:02,510 the nebula that are already there, it brings in material that is necessary 31 00:02:02,510 --> 00:02:06,520 for the formation of life. >>INTERVIEWER: Has Hubble shown us any interesting 32 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,580 worlds? >>DEBORAH: Hubble has shown us amazing details of 33 00:02:10,580 --> 00:02:14,580 the fascinating worlds of our Solar System. Like Star 34 00:02:14,580 --> 00:02:18,590 Wars has desert planets and jungle planets, we have a desert planet, 35 00:02:18,590 --> 00:02:22,590 Mars, that's very interesting to us. We have our own Jupiter 36 00:02:22,590 --> 00:02:26,600 a giant planet, we see this beautiful 4k movie 37 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,610 of Jupiter that was taken by Hubble. And Jupiter has a moon 38 00:02:30,610 --> 00:02:34,640 just like the fourth moon of Yavin, that is itself possibly a habitable world. 39 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:38,640 at least for microbes. That would be Europa, 40 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:42,650 >>INTERVIEWER: So like Star Wars, Hubble is a classic and has been showing us 41 00:02:42,650 --> 00:02:46,840 amazing images. What does the future hold for Hubble? 42 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,850 >>DEBORAH: Well, due to five servicing missions by astronauts, all the 43 00:02:50,850 --> 00:02:54,870 equipment on Hubble has been updated and renewed, and it's 44 00:02:54,870 --> 00:02:59,050 in its best shape ever, it's doing amazing work every year, 45 00:02:59,050 --> 00:03:03,050 scientists around the world compete to come up with new ideas 46 00:03:03,050 --> 00:03:07,060 for how to use Hubble. And in a few years in 2018, Hubble will be 47 00:03:07,060 --> 00:03:11,250 joined by its sister ship, the James Webb telescope, that will 48 00:03:11,250 --> 00:03:15,260 look further into the infrared, and together, they have a very bright future. 49 00:03:15,260 --> 00:03:19,450 [silence] 50 00:03:19,450 --> 00:03:23,450 [silence] 51 00:03:23,450 --> 00:03:27,460 >>INTERVIEWER: Where can we see more of Hubble's amazing images? 52 00:03:27,460 --> 00:03:31,470 >>DEBORAH: Okay, well if you go online to 53 00:03:31,470 --> 00:03:35,550 nasa.gov/hubble, or on Twitter @NASA_Hubble, 54 00:03:35,550 --> 00:03:39,570 you will see the Hubble images, the archive 55 00:03:39,570 --> 00:03:43,580 of the last quarter century worth of thousands and thousands of 56 00:03:43,580 --> 00:03:47,780 images and videos of things all over the universe. 57 00:03:47,780 --> 00:03:51,800 You could spend weeks. I certainly do. >>INTERVIEWER: Thanks 58 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,810 so much for joining us! >>DEBORAH: And may the force be with you. >>INTERVIEWER: May 59 00:03:55,810 --> 00:03:57,621 the force be with you.