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‘Twins’ of Superstar Eta Carinae found in Other Galaxies

Location of Eta twins in galaxies M51, M101, NGC 6946, and M83. Individual Image Credits: M51: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); M101:NASA/ESA/K. Kuntz (JHU), F. Bresolin (U. Hawaii), J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Lab), J. Mould (NOAO), Y.-H. Chu (U. Illinois, Urbana), Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/ J.-C. Cuillandre/Coelum/, Jacoby, B. Bohannan, and M. Hanna/ NOAO/AURA/NSF; NGC 6946: NASA/ESA/STScI/R. Gendler/Subaru Telescope (NAOJ); M83: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Credit: NASA, ESA and R. Khan (GSFC and ORAU)

Location of Eta twins in galaxies M51, M101, NGC 6946, and M83. Individual Image Credits: M51: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); M101:NASA/ESA/K. Kuntz (JHU), F. Bresolin (U. Hawaii), J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Lab), J. Mould (NOAO), Y.-H. Chu (U. Illinois, Urbana), Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/ J.-C. Cuillandre/Coelum/, Jacoby, B. Bohannan, and M. Hanna/ NOAO/AURA/NSF; NGC 6946: NASA/ESA/STScI/R. Gendler/Subaru Telescope (NAOJ); M83: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Credit: NASA, ESA and R. Khan (GSFC and ORAU)

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

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