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

The star system Eta Carinae erupted in the 1840s, from Earth's perspective, creating the Homunculus Nebula visible in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. New work shows the system spitting ...

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, ...

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, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is known for its surprising behavior, erupting twice in the 19th century for reasons scientists still ...

Eta Carinae shines brightly in the infrared, and one of its larger "space environment" implications is how it affects the Carina Nebula in which the exploding object resides, NASA noted.

(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, 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 ...

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 ...

What is Eta Carinae. It’s an enormous star — 120 times the weight and 240 times the size of our Sun. “It’s so bright it’s literally tearing itself apart by the strength of its own light ...

As such, Eta Carinae has been dubbed the “Death Star”. After all, some scientists speculate such a sterilising pulse has already caused at least one mass extinction on Earth.