The Doomed Star Eta Carinae

Boom! You're looking at the doomed binary star...  ...hose lobes is about the size of our solar system ( Eta Carinae itself is about 100 more massive than o...  ...nd Halley (of the Halley's Comet fame), Eta Carinae is a very odd star. In the mid 1800s, the star br...  ...but actually, it didn't really...

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