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Eta Carinae is known to be at the same distance as the Carina Nebula and its spectrum can be seen reflected off various star clouds in the nebula. [82] The appearance of the Carina Nebula, and particularly of the Keyhole region, has changed significantly since it was described by John Herschel over 160 years ago. [ 52 ]
Canopus is the brightest star in the constellation of Carina (top). The southeastern wall of the Kaaba in Mecca is aligned with the rising point of Canopus, and is also named Janūb . [ 36 ] The Bedouin people of the Negev and Sinai knew Canopus as Suhayl , and used it and Polaris as the two principal stars for navigation at night.
AG Carinae, a massive Luminous blue variable and a part of the Carina constellation, which is transitioning from an O-type star to a Wolf-Rayet star. Eta Carinae, inside the Carina Nebula in the southern constellation of Carina. Eta Carinae is extremely massive, possibly as much as 120 to 150 times the mass of the Sun, and is four to five ...
The Cosmic Cliffs at the edge of NGC 3324, one of the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The Carina Nebula [7] or Eta Carinae Nebula [8] (catalogued as NGC 3372; also known as the Great Carina Nebula [9]) is a large, complex area of bright and dark nebulosity in the constellation Carina, located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
Eta Carinae is an unstable blue hypergiant star, roughly 100 times more massive than the Sun, over 700 times wider, and 4 million times more luminous. In a 19th century event termed the Great Eruption, Eta Carinae brightened and violently ejected mass to form the surrounding Homunculus Nebula (pictured).
Eta Carinae is the most prominent variable star in Carina, with a mass of approximately 100 solar masses and 4 million times as bright as the Sun. [3] It was first discovered to be unusual in 1677, when its magnitude suddenly rose to 4, attracting the attention of Edmond Halley. [6] Eta Carinae is inside NGC 3372, commonly called the Carina ...
It is situated within the Carina Nebula complex in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm, located approximately 9,270 ly (2,842 pc) from Earth. [1] The cluster has one star visible to the naked eye from the tropics southward, Eta Carinae.
The Homunculus Nebula is a bipolar emission and reflection nebula surrounding the massive star system Eta Carinae, about 7,500 light-years (2,300 parsecs) from Earth.The nebula is embedded within the much larger Carina Nebula, a large star-forming H II region.