News tagged with homunculus nebula

Preview of a forthcoming supernova

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Telescope captured an image of Eta Carinae. This image consists of ultraviolet and visible light images from the High Resolution Channel of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. ...

Feb 27, 2012 4.7 / 5 (12) 14 | with audio podcast

Pan-STARRS finds a 'lost' supernova

(Phys.org) —The star Eta Carinae is ready to blow. 170 years ago, this 100-solar-mass object belched out several suns' worth of gas in an eruption that made it the second-brightest star after Sirius. That ...

Mar 07, 2013 4.8 / 5 (8) 1 | with audio podcast