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Eta Carinae

Unstable star Eta Carinae
Hubble observes Eta Carina

Image number two from 1991 observes the eruption of an unstable star Eta Carinae. Thanks to the new lenses prospective of the HST, scientists re-drew previous conceptions of the nebula based on the shape of the eruption. Don’t let the small scale of the image fool you – the individual clumps are ten times the size of our entire solar system. And that’s considered small.