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Milky Way's Brightest Star

Eta Carinae is still viewed by most astronomers as the galaxy's brightest known star, albeit lately a new contender for that title was discovered in the Peony nebula, towards the Milky Way's center. Now, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope pierced through one of the dustiest regions of the galaxy to show ex...

16 July 2008
02:58 GMT

VLT Celebrates Its First Decade of Observations

In the traditional way of marking such events, the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere has published two images of nebulae inside the Carina constellation. The Eta Carinae star with the Homunculus surrounding it is one of the nebulae featured in the pictures.Eta Carinae is a hyp...

28 May 2008
04:45 GMT

Massive X-ray Emission Detected in Eta Carinae!

It has been long predicted that solar wind interactions would be able to generate massive amounts of X-ray radiation, however until now astronomers haven't been able to detect such emissions. Now, they have revealed what seems to be a large X-ray emission coming from the Eta Carinae binary system, determined by ...

3 March 2008
08:32 GMT




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