NASA researchers discovered a distant star system exploding in festive red, white, and blue light, roughly 5,000,000 times brighter than Earth's sun. - NBCNewsMACH
This vast magnesium ring was detected for the first time in Hubble's latest observations of the distant nebula. This second ring of hot gas exists where there should be an empty swath of space; its unexpected presence reveals that the Great Eruption may have been even greater than previously believed, said Nathan Smith, an astronomer at Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona.
"This extra material is fast, and it 'ups the ante' in terms of the total energy for an already powerful stellar blast," SmithStudying the gassy debris ejected by Eta Carinae will give astronomers a better idea of what the Great Eruption looked like, maybe even hinting at what caused that event in the first place. The clock is ticking, as Eta Carinae will
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