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 ...

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 an amount of material at least 10 ...

Eta Carinae is the biggest and brightest stellar system within 10,000 light-years in our galaxy. In the mid-19 th century, a massive explosion took place within Eta Carinae, which launched a huge mass ...

A strange star that threw off huge amounts of gas and dust in a mammoth eruption more than 150 years ago isn't such an anomaly anymore. Astronomers have found five objects beyond the Milky Way galaxy ...

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 ...

Eta Carinae is one of the most massive binary systems astronomers can study in detail. The smaller star is about 30 times the mass of the Sun and may be as much as a million times more luminous. The ...

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.

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, 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 ...

Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of ...

Eta Carinae, a bright, variable star in the southern sky that is the most luminous known star in the Milky Way Galaxy, underwent a major eruption 145 years ago that may be the first example of a new ...