Astronomers are closely monitoring Eta Carinae, a hypergiant star with a mass approximately 100 times that of our Sun, as it may be on the verge of a spectacular explosion. Located about 7,500 light-years away in the Carina Nebula, Eta Carinae is one of the most massive and luminous stars known to science, making it an excellent candidate for a …
CNN — Some stars live fast and look beautiful doing it before they die young in a brilliant explosion. AG Carinae, a blue giant star located 20,000 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way galaxy, is one of those stars. The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of one of the star’s outbursts to celebrate the observatory’s 31st anniversary since …
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a brilliant "celebrity star," one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy, surrounded by a glowing halo of gas and dust and living on the edge of destruction. The star, called AG Carinae, is a few million years old and resides 20,000 light-years away inside our Milky Way galaxy. Hubble's sharp vision revealed …
