Hubble's Brand New Image of Eta Carinae (VIDEO)
Caption
In the mid-1800s, mariners sailing the southern seas navigated at night by a brilliant star in the constellation Carina. The star, named Eta Carinae, was the second brightest star in the sky for more than a decade. Those mariners could hardly have imagined that by the mid-1860s the brilliant orb would no longer be visible. Eta Carinae was enveloped by a cloud of dust ejected during a violent outburst named "The Great Eruption."
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVI0rZFPEpo
Download in HD: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13244
Credit
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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