But it’s still one of the most massive stars in the Milky Way, and it left behind another formation in the wake of the 1840’s “Great Eruption.”
ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin.
Eta Carine’s explosion created the Homunculus nebula, a cloud of gas and dust that is still expanding more than two centuries after the eruption.
On January 25, NASA released a new 3D visualization of the formation in great detail, imaged in different wavelengths.