Eta Carinae, an enigmatic star that has mystified astronomers for 160 years with both its sheer beauty and massive size, is repeating a roughly five-year cycle of pumping out X rays. This finding ...

Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled at least 10 times the sun’s mass ...

New image shows twin bulbs of light explode out of a gargantuan star system called Eta Carinae. Like the United States of America, the universe has been celebrating its own existence with fireworks ...

If you're a fan of fireworks, you might want to check out this show in space. The Hubble telescope is capturing amazing colors from a cosmic fireworks show coming from 7,500 light years away. The ...

A new visualization, among multiple renderings released by NASA this week, shows the famous explosion of one of the most brilliant stars in our night sky. Eta Carinae's great eruption, which was ...

I dropped by NASA headquarters last Monday to hear about the relatively nearby and extremely massive star that might explode at any moment. Remember the name: Eta Carinae. Sounds like an Italian opera ...