1 00:00:00,050 --> 00:00:04,270 [No Audio] 2 00:00:04,290 --> 00:00:08,290 What we're seeing here is a deep 3 00:00:08,310 --> 00:00:12,300 look at a newborn star. So we're looking with some of Hubble's 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:16,330 instruments, its cameras, at a small region in the Orion star-forming region. 5 00:00:16,350 --> 00:00:20,510 We're seeing a baby star with material that's collapsing onto the star from gravity. 6 00:00:20,530 --> 00:00:24,520 And it's causing jets of material to spew out its poles, a bipolar 7 00:00:24,540 --> 00:00:28,550 outflow at supersonic speeds. It looks like a double-bladed "lightsaber." 8 00:00:28,570 --> 00:00:32,740 [No audio] 9 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:36,760 [Laughing] Hubble has never actually seen 10 00:00:36,780 --> 00:00:40,780 a 'Death Star' as you see in Star Wars. But we certainly 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,810 are able to look at regions where stars are in their death throws. 12 00:00:44,830 --> 00:00:48,890 And those are some of the most beautiful image that Hubble has captured because as 13 00:00:48,910 --> 00:00:53,070 stars die they spew material out into the interstellar medium. 14 00:00:53,090 --> 00:00:57,100 They're actually enriching the area around them. And when new stars form the chemicals 15 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:01,160 that come from the older stars are in the mix of the new stars. 16 00:01:01,180 --> 00:01:05,210 So you're seeing some stars as they're spewing out their last layers 17 00:01:05,230 --> 00:01:09,240 calmly and others supernova remnants as the star explodes. And when we 18 00:01:09,260 --> 00:01:13,270 have a supernova explosion happening that's the type of force that would 19 00:01:13,290 --> 00:01:17,430 anilate planets around it just like a death star might. 20 00:01:17,450 --> 00:01:21,450 [No audio] 21 00:01:21,470 --> 00:01:25,470 The future for Hubble is very bright. It was serviced by astronauts 22 00:01:25,490 --> 00:01:29,490 five times on orbit, most recently in 2009. 23 00:01:29,510 --> 00:01:33,530 left it at the peak of its scientific capabilities. And we're working hard 24 00:01:33,550 --> 00:01:37,540 on the ground to keep it going until the year 2020 and beyond. We want to have 25 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,540 some overlap time with the next thing, the James Webb Space Telescope 26 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,570 which will launch in 2018 and will take pictures in the infrared 27 00:01:45,590 --> 00:01:49,620 beyond the visible. And when we're able to peer inside regions with the visible 28 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:53,640 and the infrared we're really going to be able to uncover the layers and see what's 29 00:01:53,660 --> 00:01:57,660 going on in there. [No audio] 30 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,840 [No audo] That's a great 31 00:02:01,860 --> 00:02:05,870 question. Of course Star Wars showed us a variety of worlds. Ice worlds 32 00:02:05,890 --> 00:02:09,900 forest worlds, desert worlds. And Hubble has been able to look at some 33 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:13,920 of the worlds in our own solar system, right around our own backyard. So we've 34 00:02:13,940 --> 00:02:17,940 looked at Mars and seen storms there. We're looked at Jupiter. We see Jupiter 35 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,980 evolving. We see the cloud structures on it evolving, the great red spot 36 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,980 shrinking. We see evidence for water oceans on the 37 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:30,010 moons around Jupiter just like there were moons where there was civilizations 38 00:02:30,030 --> 00:02:34,030 in Star Wars. We're seeing moons with water in our own solar system. 39 00:02:34,050 --> 00:02:38,060 And we're also starting to take those first steps beyond and look at planets around other stars. 40 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,250 with Hubble. 41 00:02:42,270 --> 00:02:46,270 [No audio] So we're actually with Hubble 42 00:02:46,290 --> 00:02:50,280 able to get a real sense of the life cycles of galaxies through the history 43 00:02:50,300 --> 00:02:54,300 of the universe. We're now learning that galaxies commonly collide 44 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:58,340 and that there's a certain sequence. You know younger galaxies look 45 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:02,530 very different than the galaxies around us today, the more modern galaxies 46 00:03:02,550 --> 00:03:06,550 And it's the same concept when we look inside of our own galaxy. 47 00:03:06,570 --> 00:03:10,600 at the star forming regions or where stars have died. We're looking at the 48 00:03:10,620 --> 00:03:14,620 life cycle of stars and we're getting this beautiful coherent picture together 49 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:18,810 of how the sun formed, the solar system and what that 50 00:03:18,830 --> 00:03:22,860 means in the place and context of everything else in the universe when it formed and how it 51 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,860 evolves. 52 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,870 [No audio] Well there's a vast archive 53 00:03:30,890 --> 00:03:34,910 of images at nasa.gov/hubble. 54 00:03:34,930 --> 00:03:38,081 Anything from the solar system all the way out to the edges of the universe.