Wednesday, July 9, 2014

ScienceDaily: Stars News

ScienceDaily: Stars News


Astronomers bring the third dimension to a doomed star's outburst

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:19 AM PDT

In the middle of the 19th century, the massive binary system Eta Carinae underwent an eruption that ejected at least 10 times the sun's mass and made it the second-brightest star in the sky. Now, a team of astronomers has used extensive new observations to create the first high-resolution 3-D model of the expanding cloud produced by this outburst.

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