As it turned out, NASA also suffers from “Star wars”. The space Agency posted a photo, showing the “light saber” — at least in our galaxy, but still located far away. The photo was obtained with the Hubble space telescope and shows the object in 1350 light years from us.
“Blade” of the lightsaber is two gas jets of extremely hot matter, leaving the newly born star. That the space Agency officially named this object “lightsaber” and posted a photo almost simultaneously with the premiere of a new episode of “Star wars”, there is no match.
“Science fiction has always inspired generations of scientists and engineers, and the Saga of “Star wars” is no exception, said John Grunsfeld from NASA. — There is no more powerful motivation for the development of this science than the opening of the space telescope Hubble new secrets of the Universe”.
The researchers hope to continue to explore the found object. In a press release NASA star and its gas jet has been called “the perfect order” to space telescope James Webb, who will be able to look deep into the surrounding star clouds of gas.
According to the materials of Popular Science