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 ...

Astronomers capture Eta Carinae’s rainbow spectrum, offering new insights into massive star evolution and extreme cosmic ...

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

The Carina Nebula Credit: ESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/R.Gendler. Nearly two centuries ago, astronomers witnessed the explosive death of one of the brightest star in our galaxy—or so they thought. Eta Carinae ...

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 ...

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 ...

This photograph of Earth and the Moon was taken by the JANUS camera onboard ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice). It was ...

Eta Carinae remains one of the most enigmatic and dynamic stellar systems in our galaxy. Characterised by dramatic eruptions and prodigious mass loss, this colossal binary system offers a unique ...

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