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This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It's inside a turbulent birthing ground for new stars known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1,350 light-years away.(Photo: NASA/ESA)
The force appears to be awakening in our galaxy, too...
A NASA telescope has spotted what the agency says looks like "a cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber."
What we're looking at is actually a newborn star that's shooting out twin jets of superheated gas that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>escapes along the star's spin axis. "Intertwined by magnetic fields, the bipolar jets blast into space at over 100,000 mph," NASA reported.
This is not, however,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way. "It’s inside a turbulent birthing ground for new stars known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1,350 light-years away," NASA said.
This is an artist's concept of the fireworks that accompany the birth of a star.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI))
The image was photographed by<span style="color: Red;">*</span>NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which is in orbit around the Earth.
Sir Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi, who wields a lightsaber in a scene from the motion picture Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Lucasfilm LTD)
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