Eta Carinae, an enigmatic star that has mystified astronomers for 160 years with both its sheer beauty and massive size, is repeating a roughly five-year cycle of pumping out X rays. This finding ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular image which reveals new details of a cosmic explosion taking place around 7,500 light years away in a double star-system known as Eta Carinae.

Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled at least 10 times the sun’s mass ...

What happens when a star behaves like it exploded, but it’s still there? About 170 years ago, astronomers witnessed a major outburst by Eta Carinae, one of the brightest known stars in the Milky Way ...

Berkeley -- Eta Carinae, the galaxy's biggest, brightest and perhaps most studied star after the sun, has been keeping a secret: Its giant outbursts appear to be driven by an entirely new type of ...

A new visualization, among multiple renderings released by NASA this week, shows the famous explosion of one of the most brilliant stars in our night sky. Eta Carinae's great eruption, which was ...

Nearly two centuries ago, astronomers witnessed the explosive death of one of the brightest star in our galaxy—or so they thought. Eta Carinae is a stellar system that seemingly went through a ...

DUBLIN, Ireland, Oct. 19 (UPI) --New images captured by European Southern Observatory telescopes have revealed violent wind collisions taking place inside Eta Carinae, one of the heaviest stars in the ...

Eta Carinae remains one of the most enigmatic and dynamic stellar systems in our galaxy. Characterised by dramatic eruptions and prodigious mass loss, this colossal binary system offers a unique ...

A revolutionary study involving researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR) in Germany, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, and NASA in the USA, has obtained the sharpest ever ...