The new spectrograph on Chile's SOAR telescope captures Eta Carinae with unprecedented precision, revealing the secrets of ...

Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae's full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile's ...

Eta Carinae, an enigmatic star that has mystified astronomers for 160 years with both its sheer beauty and massive size, is repeating a roughly five-year cycle of pumping out X rays. This finding ...

Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of material at least 10 ...

A new visualization, among multiple renderings released by NASA this week, shows the famous explosion of one of the most brilliant stars in our night sky. Eta Carinae's great eruption, which was ...

Eta Carinae was cataloged in 1677 by Edmond Halley. By all means, it's a big old star. There's also a lot of fuss now that it appears to be at the end of its life. Actually, it could have already met ...

The Eta Carinae star system does not lack for superlatives. Not only does it contain one of the biggest and brightest stars in our galaxy, weighing at least 90 times the mass of the Sun, it is also ...

Eta Carinae, a binary star system approximately 7,500 light-years distant, experienced a massive eruption in the 1830s ("Great Eruption"), temporarily becoming one of the brightest stars in the night ...

Data from three space telescopes help tell the story of the impending supernova. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new ...

Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled at least 10 times the sun’s mass ...