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  • Released Thursday, October 1, 2015
  • Updated Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 2:32PM
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NASA observatories take an unprecedented look into two stars with a violent past.

NASA observatories take an unprecedented look into two stars with a violent past.

Explore Eta Carinae from the inside out with the help of supercomputer simulations and data from NASA missions in this video.

Orbit diagram of Eta Carinae. At closest approach, the stars are 140 million miles apart, or about the average distance between Mars and the sun.

Orbit diagram of Eta Carinae. At closest approach, the stars are 140 million miles apart, or about the average distance between Mars and the sun.

Supercomputer simulations reveal the complexity of the stellar wind interaction of Eta Carinae's two stars.

Supercomputer simulations reveal the complexity of the stellar wind interaction of Eta Carinae's two stars.

Eta Carinae's eruption in the 1840s created the Homunculus Nebula (above), an expanding cloud of gas and dust that's now about a light-year long.

Eta Carinae's eruption in the 1840s created the Homunculus Nebula (above), an expanding cloud of gas and dust that's now about a light-year long.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Homunculus Nebula image courtesy of NASA/ESA/Hubble SM4 ERO Team



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