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  • Hubble captures ultraviolet portrait of Eta Carinae's fireworks

    07/02/2019 10:12:43 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 33 replies
    UPI ^ | July 1, 2019 / 3:40 PM | By Brooks Hays
    Each new image of Eta Carinae reveals new subtle details, streams of light and filaments of gas and dust, that astronomers hadn't observed before. Photo by Hubble/NASA/ESA ================================================================ July 1 (UPI) -- The Hubble Space Telescope has captured Eta Carinae's fireworks in red, white and blue, just in time for Independence Day. Eta Carinae is a binary star system located 7,500 light-years away in the Carina constellation. One of its two stars, which orbit each other, is large, highly unstable and nearing the end of its life. The dynamic stellar duo occasionally produces violent outbursts. The system's most famous outburst...