1 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:05,350 okay 2 00:02:09,749 --> 00:02:06,830 looks like it's in 3 00:02:11,830 --> 00:02:09,759 there okay are you ready for me to let 4 00:03:15,990 --> 00:02:11,840 go okay 5 00:03:20,390 --> 00:03:18,149 we'd done everything that we thought we 6 00:03:22,309 --> 00:03:20,400 had to do to prove you know to ourselves 7 00:03:23,830 --> 00:03:22,319 that it was going to work but there's no 8 00:03:24,949 --> 00:03:23,840 substitute for seeing that it actually 9 00:03:26,309 --> 00:03:24,959 did work 10 00:03:33,190 --> 00:03:26,319 and that the thousands of things that 11 00:03:37,350 --> 00:03:35,589 it's visually fascinating because 12 00:03:39,910 --> 00:03:37,360 we know that the planetary nebula has 13 00:03:41,509 --> 00:03:39,920 been or the star that is dying 14 00:03:43,430 --> 00:03:41,519 has been creating this nebula the 15 00:03:45,509 --> 00:03:43,440 material that you now see 16 00:03:47,670 --> 00:03:45,519 just in the past few few tens of 17 00:03:50,149 --> 00:03:47,680 thousands of years a very just an 18 00:03:52,630 --> 00:03:50,159 instant in astronomical time 19 00:03:54,309 --> 00:03:52,640 but now the central star 20 00:03:56,390 --> 00:03:54,319 is illuminating all of this material 21 00:03:58,949 --> 00:03:56,400 that it's created and thrown around 22 00:04:05,270 --> 00:03:58,959 all around it and it literally lights it 23 00:04:10,149 --> 00:04:07,750 it weighs about 600 pounds it's about as 24 00:04:12,550 --> 00:04:10,159 big as a small piano 25 00:04:14,949 --> 00:04:12,560 and about as heavy 26 00:04:21,270 --> 00:04:14,959 its job is very simple it collects the 27 00:04:25,189 --> 00:04:23,110 it's going to be uh it's going to be a 28 00:04:26,870 --> 00:04:25,199 tough moment when uh it comes out of the 29 00:04:29,350 --> 00:04:26,880 hubble because i remember exactly the 30 00:04:31,590 --> 00:04:29,360 moment it was in place in the hubble i 31 00:04:32,790 --> 00:04:31,600 can still see the astronauts slowly 32 00:04:34,469 --> 00:04:32,800 pushing it in 33 00:04:36,629 --> 00:04:34,479 and hoping on hope that they got the 34 00:04:37,749 --> 00:04:36,639 prescription for the for the correction 35 00:04:38,870 --> 00:04:37,759 correct 36 00:04:41,030 --> 00:04:38,880 uh 37 00:04:42,710 --> 00:04:41,040 so that i i i'll always remember that 38 00:04:43,909 --> 00:04:42,720 moment as it was coming in i'm sure i'm 39 00:04:46,230 --> 00:04:43,919 going to remember the moment when it's 40 00:04:47,990 --> 00:04:46,240 coming down but i really look forward to 41 00:04:49,990 --> 00:04:48,000 be able to walk up to it and touch it