File:Astronomers Blown Away by Historic Stellar Blast (gemini1805a).jpg
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Color image taken with the Hubble Space Telecope’s WFPC2 camera, showing the dumbbell-shaped cloud of gas and dust around the star.
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English: Color image taken with the Hubble Space Telecope’s WFPC2 camera, showing the dumbbell-shaped cloud of gas and dust around the star. This nebula contains more than 10 times the mass of our Sun, which was ejected by Eta Carinae in the 19th century Great Eruption. |
Date | 2 August 2018 (upload date) |
Source | Astronomers Blown Away by Historic Stellar Blast |
Author | N. Smith (U. Arizona) and NASA. |
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Credit/Provider | N. Smith (U. Arizona) and NASA. |
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Source | NSF's NOIRLab |
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Date and time of data generation | 00:00, 2 August 2018 |
File change date and time | 23:25, 6 June 2020 |
Unique ID of original document | 0D5D09A25E3DEBFC8572EA90A2F15F69 |
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Date metadata was last modified | 01:25, 7 June 2020 |
Keywords | Eta Carinae |
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