In 1998-9 the star yet again reached naked-eye visibility. It is one of the closest stars to Earth that is likely to explode in a supernova in the relatively near future (though in astronomical timescales the "near future" could still be a million years away). Part of this huge nebula was documented in the well-known Mystic Mountain picture (heic1007a) and this picture takes an even closer look at another piece of this bizarre astronomical landscape (heic0707a). Because of this, it never sets for most of the southern hemisphere observers. The former is immersed within the ring and the latter is just outside the ring. The stellar winds and ultraviolet radiation within the region are compressing cold hydrogen, resulting in more new stars being formed inside the nebula.The pillars of dust and gas within the Eta Carinae Nebula will be destroyed by the young stars over the next 100,000 years and all that will remain will be a new open star cluster.The Carina Nebula lies in the constellation of Carina (The Keel), about 7500 light-years from Earth. Eta Carinae is the brightest star, on the left side.The recent lightcurve of Eta Carinae, with observations at standard wavelengths markedOne theory of Eta Carinae's ultimate fate is collapsing to form a Eta Carinae is engulfed by the Homunculus Nebula. It is the most luminous star of this classification.Both stars have a semi-major axis of around 15.4 AU and an orbit eccentricity of 0.9. The pronounced pillars and knobs of the upper left cloud appear to point toward a luminous, massive star located just outside the field further toward the upper left, which may be responsible for illuminating and sculpting them by means of its high-energy radiation and stellar wind of high-velocity ejected material. Possible implications of mass accretion in Eta Carinae. They are quite rare — only a few dozen are present in a galaxy the size of the Eta Carinae's chief significance for astrophysics is its giant eruption, which was observed around 1843. The picture is a montage assembled from four different April 1999 telescope pointings with Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, which used six different color filters. On the role of continuum-driven eruptions in the evolution of very massive stars. The estimated distance of the nebula is 7,500 light years.NGC 3372 is exceptionally large, about four times the size of the Eta Carinae Nebula is not quite as well known as the The nebula spans about 460 light years in diameter, covering an area of three degrees of the sky. Eta Carinae is circumpolar south of latitude 30°S, so it is never seen north of latitude 30°N.This stellar system is currently one of the most massive that can be studied in detail. Beta Carinae A has been estimated to have around 9.400 to 35.200 K – this is between 1.6 to 6 times hotter than our sun. By penetrating the wall of gas and dust, the infrared vision of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) reveals the infant star that is probably blasting the jet. Its brightness decreased from 1845 to 1856 by 0.1 magnitude per year.Since 1857 it faded below naked-eye visibility before the lesser eruption occurred in 1887. The field of view is approximately 30 arcseconds across. This cloud of glowing gas and dust is the brightest nebula in the sky and contains several of the brightest and most massive stars known in the Milky Way, such as Eta Carinae. It is one of a small class of stars called luminous blue variables. Eta Carinae is one of the most massive binary star systems known, lying at a distance of about 7,500 light years from Earth. It is currently classified as a luminous blue The ionizing radiation emitted by the secondary star in Eta Carinae is the major radiation source of the system. This provides evidence that the nebula is at least partly formed from the remnants of earlier generations of stars where most elements heavier than helium were synthesised. The gas pillar is being slowly eroded by the light of the enormously large, massive young stars located above the pillar.This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the chaotic activity atop a pillar of gas and dust, three light-years tall, which is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. A collection of images taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, including image descriptions, constellations, an X-ray sky map and comparisons with images in other wavelengths such as optical, radio and infrared. Key Facts & Summary. The system contains at least two stars, of which the primary is a luminous blue variable (LBV) that initially had around 150 solar masses, of which it has lost at least 30.