Yet another wonder of the night sky, Eta Carinae is an expanding nebula formed by unknown forces from its star system form. This Homunculus Nebula is a complete mystery of formation, but also is a beautiful wonder as over the past 170 years it has grown brighter, faded, brighter again, etc. in 1995 it actually became the second brightest star system in the sky. Shown over three pictures is it actually not only brightening and dimming, but also it having amazing streams of light shooting out amongst the gas clouds that are expanding from the central massive star. Still exploding randomly even now, it is expected that this system will eventually cause an amazing supernova. Eventually.
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