Eta Carinae

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5154. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Stars, Individual Stellar Objects

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One of the most enigmatic stars known. It is an S Doradus-type eruptive variable, situated at the heart of the bright diffuse nebula NGC 3373. It is obscured by the Homunculus Nebula, a bright cloud of gas and dust ejected by the star itself during a major outburst in 1843, when it reached an apparent magnitude of -0.8, becoming temporarily brighter than all other stars except Sirius. Its apparen...

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