BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Eta Carinae

STAR SYSTEM · the ticking giant
Eta Carinae
AI illustration of the real object
DISTANCE about 7,500 light yearsMASS around 100 SunsEVENT the Great Eruption of the 1840s

One of the most massive and unstable star systems known. In the 1840s it erupted so violently that it briefly became the second brightest star in the sky, hurling out the two glowing dust clouds that now surround it like a peanut. Eta Carinae is a supernova waiting to happen, and astronomers watch it like a sleeping dragon.

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