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

Some things look weird. Others have peculiar characteristics that are not at all visually obvious, like extreme density. Still others earn their strangeness points solely because of bad behavior. It ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. See the highest-resolution views yet of the explosive star system Eta Carinae, which is 7,500 ...

The European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope has captured a breath-taking view of the Carina Nebula – one of the Milky Way's largest star-forming regions. The image reveals the complexity of ...

The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) is a stellar nursery 7,500 light-years from Earth. These images show several pillars of gas and dust protruding from the nebula. Dubbed the "Pillars of Destruction," these ...

People alive in 1841 understood the Eta Carinae nebula better than we do. They were the ones who were actually around to watch when an enormous star weighing about 130 times as much as our sun erupted ...

Eta Carinae has been exploding for nearly 200 years, and now we're firing lasers at it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Four ...

NASA has created a full 3D model of a light-year-long nebula that was coughed out by the Eta Carinae system, 7,500 light years away from Earth, in the 19th century. Eta Carinae can be found in the ...

The star Eta Carinae was once one of the brightest in the sky, but in 1843 it went through a “Great Eruption” when it flared brightly before fading dramatically. This eruption wasn’t a supernova, ...

Ever wish you could own your very own nebula? Well, if you happen to own a 3D printer, these massive interstellar clouds can be all yours. A team of NASA astronomers have come together to create the ...