The Hubble Telescope Captures A Cosmic Lightsaber

By Jamie Lovett

Lightsaber
(Photo: Lucasfilm)

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a timely photo that resembles, as they have dubbed it, "a cosmic lightsaber.

The photo, seen below, is actually of energized jets of gas, but with Star Wars: The Force Awakens hitting theaters, people are seeing Star Wars in all kinds of places.

A Cosmic Lighsaber
(Photo: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Padgett (GSFC), T. Megeath (University of Toledo), and B. Reipurth (University of Hawaii))

Here's Hubble's description:

The two lightsabre-like streams crossing the image are jets of energised gas, ejected from the poles of a young star. If the jets collide with the surrounding gas and dust they can clear vast spaces, and create curved shock waves, seen as knotted clumps called Herbig-Haro objects.

Lightsabers are sure to clash in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Check out when this movie and other movies are coming out in ComicBook.com's Movie Release Schedule.

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