Two decades of Chandra X-ray Observatory data in 18 seconds! In the 1840s Eta Carinae, a famous star system, experienced a huge explosion and ejected between 10 and 45 times the mass of the Sun. This new time-lapse sequence contains frames of Eta Carinae taken with Chandra from 1999, 2003, 2009, 2014, and 2020 as the stellar eruption from about 180 years ago continues to expand into space at speeds up to 4.5 million miles per hour. READ MORE >> https://go.nasa.gov/46nyiCX | NASA's Marshall Space

Zoom into The Eta Carinae Nebula & Supergiant Star | ESO FriendsofNASA.org: This animation zooms in on the massive star Eta Carinae in the European Southern Observatory/WFI image of the Eta Carinae Nebula. The Eta Carinae Nebula is located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, approximately 8,500 light-years from Earth. Within the Carina Nebula is the supergiant star Eta Carinae. It has a mass about 100 times greater than our Sun. It is an excellent candidate for a future supern