{"id":651168,"date":"2026-05-06T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651168\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:35:12","slug":"cosmic-lightsabers-captured-as-fans-celebrate-star-wars-day-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651168\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cosmic lightsabers\u2019 captured as fans celebrate Star Wars Day | National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"SWNS_SPACE_LIGHTSABERS_02_146104\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1323\" height=\"1567\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>(NASA Hubble via SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>In a post to social media on May 4, NASA Hubble said: \u201cThe force awakens in newborn stars.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moorenews.com\/news\/national\/advantage-arsenal-as-man-city-held-in-six-goal-everton-thriller\/article_01a0bb76-242b-50c1-8d1f-430ac2328df4.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Advantage Arsenal as Man City held in six-goal Everton thriller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Advantage Arsenal as Man City held in six-goal Everton thriller\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"453\" height=\"340\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moorenews.com\/news\/national\/germanys-merz-says-not-giving-up-on-working-with-donald-trump\/article_3e3f2a53-6fd4-5b32-8ec9-710b726ae5ad.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Germany&#039;s Merz says not &#039;giving up on working with Donald Trump&#039;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Germany's Merz says not 'giving up on working with Donald Trump'\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"455\" height=\"341\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"SWNS_SPACE_LIGHTSABERS_03_146105\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1527\" height=\"1356\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>(NASA Hubble via SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Talker<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hubble captured some cosmic &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2025\/09\/05\/darth-vaders-lightsaber-sells-for-record-breaking-3-7-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">lightsabers<\/a>&#8216; far, far away. These are actually young stellar jets, colliding at fast speeds with nearby gas and dust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joining in the geeky fun, NASA Ames posted: &#8220;The Hubble Space Telescope once captured a photo of a newborn star shooting out two bright jets into space. Much more energetic than a sci-fi lightsaber, these narrow beams are blasting across space at over 100,000 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away but rather inside our own <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2025\/09\/10\/astronomers-puzzled-by-repeating-gamma-ray-bursts-outside-milky-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Milky Way<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(NASA Hubble via SWNS) In a post to social media on May 4, NASA Hubble said: \u201cThe force&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19726,800,49,48,81109,36567,19723,2036,15846,66,81110,19727,58764,12581],"class_list":["post-651168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-astronomical-objects","tag-astronomy","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dean-murray","tag-hubble-space-telescope","tag-observational-astronomy","tag-outer-space","tag-physical-sciences","tag-science","tag-scientific-observation","tag-space-science","tag-spaceflight","tag-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}