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 ...

Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when—it may be next year, it may be 1 million years from now. Eta Carinae's mass—about 100 times greater than our sun—makes it an excellent ...

Deep in the heart of the southern Milky Way lies a stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula. It is about 7,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Carina the Keel. This cloud of glowing gas ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory didn’t exist in 1838, when the Eta Carinae star system started to brighten as it ejected material in an event named the “Great Eruption.” But traces of the eruption ...

Day 8 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a mysterious nebula. Details of a complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the Keyhole Nebula, obtained by ...

Using snapshots taken over 20 years with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have learned important new details about an eruption from Eta Carinae witnessed on Earth in the mid-19th century.

The NASA Hubble Telescope continues to blow our minds by providing images of the great unknown surrounding Earth. It’s helped us understand where our home exists in the infinity of celestial bodies ...

The nebula, a center of star formation, lies 7,500 light-years from Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Twinkling stars ...

Giant bubbles, towering pillars, and cascading clouds of dust and gas fill the star-forming nursery of the Carina Nebula seen here in a stunning new view from Herschel to launch the European Space ...

ESO’s Very Large Telescope has delivered the most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery taken so far. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial ...

A Chandra data time-lapse sequence of Eta Carinae with frames from 1999, 2003, 2009, 2014, and 2020 — along with observations from ESA’s XMM-Newton — allows astronomers to watch as the stellar ...