This image shows what the largest star in the Eta Carinae binary system might look like when it blows up, in the near (astronomical) future. This may translate into a few million years from now, but that is a very brief time in universal terms.The largest star in the system has already experienced a massive explosion... |
25 February 2012
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About 174 years ago, one of the largest stars in the Milky Way, called Eta Carinae, underwent something called the Great Eruption. This was a huge explosion that made it the second-brightest star in the sky for about a decade, and which researchers are now finding was colder than first calculated.
This is a very in... |
16 February 2012
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Astronomers recently came to an agreement that Eta Carinae, one of the largest stars in the known Universe, might explode without forewarning at any time. This is important news for us because the object is just some 7,500 light-years away from Earth, practically in our backyard.In all fairness, the massive star may ... |
29 December 2010
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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
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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
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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
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