One of astronomy's most famous stellar pairs sports strange structures in the windy zone between the two stars, according to new observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI).
Eta Carinae is a star system located about 7,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Carina. The new images, released today (Oct. 19), provide unprecedented detail of the windy area between the two stars, which could help scientists better understand how massive star evolution works.
Eta Carinae is known for a great eruption that astronomers observed in the 1830s. Much later, scientists determined the larger star had created the eruption by blowing out lots of dust and gas quickly. The explosion is seen in two lobes around the star system, known as the Homunculus Nebula."
ESO researchers created this stunning view video of Eta Carinae to zoom into the deepest-ever view of the star system. We weaved telescope imagery and a simulation from ESO and NASA
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