By Dean Murray

Space scientists say they have spotted a cosmic lightsaber.

NASA has revealed a jaw-dropping image of an unusual stellar jet captured by the James Webb Space Telescope - which resembles film baddie Darth Maul's weapon.

The NASA Webb Mission Team said Wednesday, Sept. 10: "Streaking across space at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour, the outflow resembles a double-bladed dueling lightsaber from the Star Wars films."

They added that the spectacle was a "blowtorch of seething gases erupting from a volcanically growing monster star."

Stretching across 8 light-years, the length of the stellar eruption is approximately twice the distance between our Sun and the next nearest stars, the Alpha Centauri system.

The size and strength of this particular stellar jet, loc

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