Beginning in 1837, the star Eta Carinae, located about 7,500 light-years away in the constellation Carina the Keel, underwent a tremendous explosion.The prodigious outpouring of energy ...

A new study using data from NASA's NuSTAR space telescope suggests that Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years, is accelerating particles to high ...

(Phys.org) —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 ...

Eta Carinae's eruptions provide unique insights into the last unstable phases of a very massive star's life. Researchers who study supernovae have identified a subclass of supernova explosions ...

Eta Carinae is a system that contains two massive stars (one is about 90 times the mass of the Sun and the other is believed to be about 30 times the Sun’s mass).

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, ...

A new Hubble image shows Eta Carinae, a double star system 7500 light-years away, which has been exploding in slow motion for more than a hundred years. The system contains at least two stars ...

Astronomers still don't know what causes these stellar tantrums, but Eta Carinae continues to spew out powerful winds of gas and dust at speeds of roughly 6.2 million mph (10 million kph).

Eta Carinae, about 8,000 light-years from Earth, was classified as a variable star in the 19th century, when astronomers observed it slowly changing in brightness.

Eta Carinae, for example, is a binary star system that sits around 7,500 light years from Earth, and it’s so incredibly extreme that when it fires cosmic rays off into space they actually manage ...

A star 100 times bigger than our Sun is set to explode, and prophets of doom believe it will wipe out everything nearby, including all life on Earth. Eta Carinae, also dubbed the "death star", is ...

Eta Carinae is located about 7,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Carina. The system is surrounded by the vast Homunculus Nebula, which gives it its odd shape.