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Eta CarinaeThis "almost true-color" image shows material surrounding the star Eta Carinae obtained with the second-generation Wide Field and Planetary Camera installed in the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1993.
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Eta Carinae is a sixth- magnitude star located between 8,000 and 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina (the keel) which lies in the southern hemisphere. It was first cataloged in 1677 by astronomer extraordinaire Edmund Halley.
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ETA CAR ( Eta Carinae). "Magnificent;" "Grandest in the Galaxy of stars"; "None like it:" so would go critical reviews were Eta Car a stage actor rather than a star. Hyperbole?
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Eta Carinae, the Milky Way's most massive star, is blowing itself apart in a series of powerful explosions. The star, which lies 8,000 light-years away, is about 100 times as massive as the Sun.
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Eta Carinae is perhaps the most famous of the really big stars. It first gained widespread attention about 160 years ago when it flared spectacularly from obscurity to become one of the brightest in the sky.
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Eta Carinae is "a hard one to get your head around," says John Martin, assistant professor of astronomy/physics at the University of Illinois, Springfield.
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Eta Carinae A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this stunning image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. It is estimated to be 100 times more massive than our Sun and may be one of the most massive stars in our Galaxy.
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An old name for Eta Carinae. Killing vector When it exists, the Killing vector describes symmetry properties of spacetime.
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Eta Car with the surrounding the Eta Carinae Nebula is one of the most peculiar objects in the sky.
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Stars like Eta Carinae and the ``Pistol star'' are examples of these supermassive stars. The picture of Eta Carinae below shows two dumbbell-shaped lobes of ejected material from the star in an earlier episode of mass ejection.
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[43] The existence of other stars changing in brightness gave credence to the idea that some may change in colour too; Sir John Herschel noted this in 1839, possibly influenced by witnessing Eta Carinae two years earlier.
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The constellation contains a unique star, Eta Carinae, that flared up to become brighter than Canopus in 1843, but has since faded to the limit of naked-eye visibility.
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Over 300 bright nebulae have been cataloged; prime examples are the Orion Nebula, visible to the unaided eye, the Eta Carinae Nebula, and the smaller North America Nebula.
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surpass those of any other known object of its type. Though similar in appearance to another bipolar planetary, the Butterfly Nebula (M2-9), the Ant has an outflow pattern that more closely resembles that of the bizarre, unstable star Eta Carinae.
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 See also: Carina, Eta Car, Light, Sun, Star
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