I guess NASA misses The Martian, because it like to tie into popular culture. Well, Star Wars is here and now the Agency has a new spin on its material. In this case, lightsabers and the Hubble Space Telescope, as shown above and discussed below:
“Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series Star Wars is no exception,” said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator for the NASA Science Mission directorate. “There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe."
There have been other tie-ins, such as the discussion with a NASA engineer about what it would take to build a Death Star. Let's not roll out that plan just yet since presidential candidate Trump is still looking for something "huge" to resolve matters in the Middle East.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.
