This week’s naked-eye object is for those of you who observe from latitudes south of 30° north. It’s the beautiful Eta Carinae Nebula, also known as NGC 3372. The sky’s most spectacular emission ...

The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) is a stellar nursery 7,500 light-years from Earth. These images show several pillars of gas and dust protruding from the nebula. Dubbed the "Pillars of Destruction," these ...

Eta Carinae has been exploding for nearly 200 years, and now we're firing lasers at it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Four ...

The European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope has captured a breath-taking view of the Carina Nebula – one of the Milky Way's largest star-forming regions. The image reveals the complexity of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This landscape of "mountains" and "valleys" speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge ...

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have imaged a giant molecular cloud being shredded by howling stellar winds and searing radiation, exposing a group of towering dust pillars harboring ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have imaged a giant molecular cloud being shredded by howling stellar winds and searing radiation, exposing a group of towering dust pillars harboring ...

Deep within the Carina Nebula lives the binary star system Eta Carinae — two massive stars orbiting each other, producing turbulent stellar winds that collide at speeds of 6 million miles per hour.

Death and new life meet in a photo showing off a nebula located 7,500 light-years away. The Carina Nebula — recently photographed by the VISTA telescope in the Southern Hemisphere — is a ...

WASHINGTON—A new view of Eta Carinae, a nearby star system that is expected to explode as a supernova sometime in the next 10,000 years or so, reveals for the first time clouds of gas that were ...

The star Eta Carinae was once one of the brightest in the sky, but in 1843 it went through a “Great Eruption” when it flared brightly before fading dramatically. This eruption wasn’t a supernova, ...

Astrophotographer Amit Kamble caught the Eta Carina Nebula on Feb. 19, 2015, Kamble is based in Auckland, NZ. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this view of a stellar nursery called the Carina ...