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Eta Carinae
, a
hypergiant
luminous blue variable
star
in the
Carina constellation
and one of the
most massive
and
most luminous
stars yet discovered, and the bipolar
Homunculus Nebula
which surrounds it. The
nebula
was partly created in an eruption of Eta Carinae, whose light reached Earth in 1843. Eta Carinae itself appears as the white patch near the center of the image, where the two lobes of the Homunculus touch.
Photo credit:
Hubble Space Telescope
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