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Eta Carinae as pictured by hubble edit

 
Original - A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. Eta Carinae was observed by Hubble in September 1995 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). Images taken through red and near-ultraviolet filters were subsequently combined to produce the color image shown. A sequence of eight exposures was necessary to cover the object's huge dynamic range: the outer ejecta blobs are 100,000 times fainter than the brilliant central star. Eta Carinae suffered a giant outburst about 160 years ago, when it became one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. Though the star released as much visible light as a supernova explosion, it survived the outburst. The explosion produced two lobes and a large, thin equatorial disk, all moving outward at about 1.5 million miles per hour.
Reason
This is a high resolution image of one of the most massive star.
Has been a featured picture at Spanish Wikipedia.
Articles this image appears in
Eta Carinae,Hypernova, Carina Nebula, Homunculus Nebula, Gamma ray burst progenitors
Creator
Jon Morse (University of Colorado) and NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, published by STScI.
  • Actually that image is not a picture of Eta Carinae. It is an image of the Carina Nebula, NGC 3372, where Eta Carinae resides. A lot of people make the mistake of calling it "Eta Carinae Nebula". This image should clear this popular error.Sumanch (talk) 19:58, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think we're actually agreeing with each other. I was unclear in my earlier comment-- I meant to say that we already have a featured picutre where this star can be seen. (It's a spectacular object, and certainly worthy of being featured more than once). Spikebrennan (talk) 12:48, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • I agree with you. But the difference between these images is same as the difference between this image and this.Sumanch (talk) 17:26, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Excellent quality and exceptional contentJ.T Pearson (talk) 15:06, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Clearly distorted. Needs restitching to correct this. Also too warm, needs colour correction. ;-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 16:32, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Blown highlights on the stars! NauticaShades 22:01, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support wonderful. The freddinator (talk) 22:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Simply perfect. --Dcelasun (talk) 11:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Wow. However, can we remove 'stunning' from the caption? J Milburn (talk) 19:39, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support if i can't call it stunning then i shall have to call it magnificent. as for the other featured picture mentioned previously, it looks a bit, dare i say, messy in comparison to this picture. this is certainly the better of the two pictures by a long way. Pm504 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 01:26, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment is this an artists conception? the nasa website shows a different image Thisglad (talk) 00:35, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • This image is not an artist's conception. The NASA image was cropped from this original to emphasize Eta Carinae and its ejecta, the Homunculus Nebula, in visible spectrum. The red aura is a near IR image of the surrounding mater interacting with the radiation from Eta Carinae.Sumanch (talk) 17:10, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:EtaCarinae.jpg MER-C 09:05, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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