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English: A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this stunning NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. Eta Carinae was observed by Hubble in September 1995 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). Images taken through red and near-ultraviolet filters were subsequently combined to produce the color image shown. A sequence of eight exposures was necessary to cover the object's huge dynamic range: the outer ejecta blobs are 100,000 times fainter than the brilliant central star. Eta Carinae suffered a giant outburst about 160 years ago, when it became one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. Though the star released as much visible light as a supernova explosion, it survived the outburst. The explosion produced two lobes and a large, thin equatorial disk, all moving outward at about 1.5 million miles per hour.
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Unedited high resolution NASA image via Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil.
Date

June 10, 1996
Author

Jon Morse (University of Colorado) and NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, published by STScI
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current22:36, 24 April 20082,000×2,000 (1 MB)Sumanch (==Summary== {{Information |Description = {{en|A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this stunning NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. Eta Carinae was observed by Hubble in September 1995 with the)
21:18, 7 June 2007900×900 (43 KB)Tim Starling (Reverted to earlier revision)
23:32, 12 May 2007 (114 KB)Hairy Dude (bigger version from enwiki)
19:22, 21 November 2006900×900 (43 KB)Yann (Better quality of the same image.)
22:42, 22 January 2005322×291 (15 KB)Robbot (This image was copied from wikipedia:en. The original description was: A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. Credit: Jon Morse (University of Colorado))