Hubble Image of Homunculus Nebula (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Image of Homunculus Nebula

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Eta Carinae's great eruption in the 1840s created the billowing Homunculus Nebula, imaged here by Hubble. Now about a light-year long, the expanding cloud contains enough material to make at least 10 copies of our Sun. Astronomers cannot yet explain what caused this eruption.

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NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

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