File:EtaCarinae.jpg

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DescriptionEtaCarinae.jpg	English: A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this stunning NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. Eta Carinae was observed by Hubble in September 1995 with the Wide Field and 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 million kilometers per hour.
Date	10 June 1996
Source	File:Eta Carinae.jpg and File:Etacarinae-001.jpg
Author	Nathan Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and NASA
Other versions	Derivative works of this file: EvolutionSystèmeSolaire-fragment1.png

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	09:41, 18 December 2017		2,000 × 2,000 (1 MB)	The NMI User	Reverted to version as of 22:36, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
	14:45, 13 March 2017		3,000 × 3,000 (4.7 MB)	Leogorgon	larger file size
	15:39, 26 June 2009		2,000 × 2,000 (1 MB)	Henrykus	Reverted to version as of 22:36, 24 April 2008; there is a better version of the image originally taken by Hubble only for "scientific use", http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eta_Carinae.jpg
	09:59, 20 June 2009		900 × 900 (43 KB)	Tryphon	Reverted to version as of 21:18, 7 June 2007: the other image is an "artistic" edit (combination of two images); the real image from Hubble is more suitable for scientific use.
	22:36, 24 April 2008		2,000 × 2,000 (1 MB)	Sumanch	==Summary== {{Information \|Description = {{en\|A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this stunning NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. Eta Carinae was observed by Hubble in September 1995 with the
	21:18, 7 June 2007		900 × 900 (43 KB)	Tim Starling	Reverted to earlier revision
	23:32, 12 May 2007	No thumbnail	(114 KB)	Hairy Dude	bigger version from enwiki
	19:22, 21 November 2006		900 × 900 (43 KB)	Yann	Better quality of the same image.
	22:42, 22 January 2005		322 × 291 (15 KB)	Robbot	This image was copied from wikipedia:en. The original description was: A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. Credit: Jon Morse (University of Colorado)