Eta Carinae: NASA shares image of slow-motion firework in space
- By Web Desk -
- Jan 05, 2021
An image of a ‘slow-motion firework’ in space was shared by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which showed a doomed super-massive star 7,500 light-years away named Eta Carinae.
The slow-motion firework in space has reportedly lasted over 150 years whose picture has stunned many of the viewers online. The image was captured by NASA’s Hubble telescope.
The super-massive star went through a “Great Eruption” in the 1840s that made it the second-brightest visible star in the sky for over a decade, NASA wrote in its Instagram post.
It added, ‘It was so bright that sailors at the time used it as an important navigational star in the southern seas.’
A star system of at least two stars orbiting each other is called Eta Carinae and its combined luminosity is said to be greater than 5 million times that of the sun in our solar system.
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