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Carina

Constellation of the southern hemisphere, represented as a ship's keel. Its brightest star is Canopus, the second brightest in the night sky; it also contains Eta Carinae, a massive and highly luminous star embedded in a gas cloud, perhaps 8,000 light years away from the Sun.

Carina was formerly regarded as part of Argo, and is situated in one of the brightest parts of the Milky Way.



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DISTANT OUTBURST--The bright, massive star V1 (arrow) in the galaxy NGC 2363, which lies about 11 million light-years from Earth, is undergoing an outburst less violent than the one that convulsed Eta Carinae in the mid-19th century.
Correction by Science News
Photographs taken of clouds around the explosive star Eta Carinae from the telescope in Cerro Paranal, Chile, provide astronomers with rare insights into the role of clouds at the beginning and evolution of the universe.
The cloud as symbol: destruction or dialogue by Basker, Jacqueline Taylor / Cross Currents
A Chandra X-ray image (1) of Eta Carinae, our galaxy's most luminous star (7,500 light years from Earth), as compared to an optical image by the Hubble Space Telescope (2).
Superstar Search by CARIATI, SOPHIA / Science World
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