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    Eta CarinaeCarinae, abbreviated to η Car), formerly known as Eta Argus, is a stellar system containing at least two stars with a combined luminosity...
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    The Carina Nebula or Eta Carinae Nebula (catalogued as NGC 3372; also known as the Great Carina Nebula) is a large, complex area of bright and dark nebulosity...
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    bipolar emission and reflection nebula surrounding the massive star system Eta Carinae, about 7,500 light-years (2,300 parsecs) from Earth. The nebula is embedded...
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    white-hued supergiant star of magnitude 2.2, 690 light-years from Earth. Eta Carinae is the most prominent variable star in Carina, with a mass of approximately...
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  • people of northwestern Victoria, Australia, witnessed the outburst of Eta Carinae in the 1840s and incorporated it into their oral traditions as Collowgulloric...
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    SN 2006gy was a quark-nova, heralding the birth of a quark star. Eta CarinaeCarinae or η Car) is a highly luminous hypergiant star located approximately...
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    longer periods. A good candidate for hosting a continuum-driven wind is Eta Carinae, one of the most massive stars ever observed. With an estimated mass...
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    explosion that occurred over 1,000 years ago. These three structures around Eta Carinae are thought to represent shock waves produced by matter rushing away...
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    supernova impostors, becoming significantly brighter in the process. Eta Carinae is known for having underwent a supernova impostor event, the Great Eruption...
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    Canopus (redirect from Alpha Carinae)
    star in the night sky. It is also designated α Carinae, which is romanized (transliterated) to Alpha Carinae. With a visual apparent magnitude of −0.74,...
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    never gained popularity, probably because it used the star Eta Carinae and the Eta Carinae Nebula, and was soon dropped from use after only fifty years...
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    1093/mnras/168.1.221. Vink, Jorick S. (2012). "Eta Carinae and the Luminous Blue Variables". Eta Carinae and the Supernova Impostors. Astrophysics and...
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  • spectra. They are potentially quiescent hot luminous blue variables. Eta Carinae has been described as a prototypical example. An iron star is a hypothetical...
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    visible to the naked eye from the tropics southward, Eta Carinae. Its most luminous members are Eta Carinae and WR 25, with both having luminosities several...
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    and an unusual emission spectrum. The similarity of SN 1961V to the Eta Carinae Great Outburst was noted. Supernovae in M101 (1909) and M83 (1923 and...
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    class of extra-powerful novae. They are also known as Type V supernovae, Eta Carinae analogs, and giant eruptions of luminous blue variables (LBV). Supernova...
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    resemble those of other variable stars in the Milky Way Galaxy such as Eta Carinae, suggesting that Godzilla could be close to the end of its life. Godzilla...
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    Tseen She and R.H. Allen used the term Tseen She for Chinese name of Eta Carinae. See Richard Hinckley Allen: Star Names — Their Lore and Meaning: Argo...
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  • genus of prehistoric New World monkeys Homunculus Nebula, a part of the Eta Carinae Nebula Cortical homunculus, also known as the Penfield homunculus, a...
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    to Eta Carinae around the 1830s–1840s creating the lobes observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The luminosities of the Pistol Star, Eta Carinae, and...
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  • ; Gull, T.R. (1 March 2015). "3D radiative transfer simulations of Eta Carinae's inner colliding winds - I. Ionization structure of helium at apastron"...
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    Significant luminosity variation within a human lifetime is rare in LBVs, e.g. Eta Carinae during its Great Eruption (1837 to 1855). NGC 2363-V1 shows an extreme...
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    ranks: he completed his Doctoral dissertation entitled "A Study of the Eta Carinae Region" in 1932, became an assistant professor in 1933, an associate...
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    with over 1 million L☉ and visible to the naked eye: WR 22, WR 24 and Eta Carinae. All of these stars are located in the Carina nebula. Accurate measurement...
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    about 1.6 million L☉ (one third as luminous as the binary star system Eta Carinae), hence a radius of 306 R☉ based on an effective temperature around 12...
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    outflow of material to form the bipolar shape. Homunculus Nebula around Eta Carinae Hubble 5 M2-9 – The Wings of a Butterfly Nebula OH231.8+4.2 – The Calabash...
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    outer core within Jupiter 37 kK in proton–electron reactions 38 kK on Eta Carinae 46 kK on Wolf–Rayet star R136a1 50 kK at protostar (core) 54.5 kK on...
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    followed by a deep minimum in 1964, when the spectrum was compared to Eta Carinae in strong contrast to the mid-A spectrum at normal brightness. By 1969...
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    Noel D.; Russell, Christopher M. P.; Stevens, Ian R. (1 July 2022). "Eta Carinae: an evolving view of the central binary, its interacting winds and its...
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    published a first-ever image of the inner structure of the mysterious Eta Carinae. In March 2011, the PIONIER instrument for the first time simultaneously...
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