Astronomers Watch Delayed Broadcast of a Rare Celestial Eruption
Update: 2012-06-29
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Eta Carinae, one of the most massive stars in our Milky Way galaxy, unexpectedly increased in brightness in the 19th century. For ten years in the mid-1800s it was the second-brightest star in the sky. (Now it is not even in the top 100.) The increase in luminosity was so great that it earned the rare title of Great Eruption. New research from a team including Carnegie’s Jose Prieto, now at Princeton University, has used a “light echo” technique to demonstrate that this eruption was much different than previously thought.
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