Deep-space images show violent wind collision in one of the heaviest stars in our galaxy
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 08:03
in Astronomy & Space
A revolutionary study involving researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR) in Germany, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, and NASA in the USA, has obtained the sharpest ever images of one of the heaviest stars in our Galaxy. The images show Eta Carinae and its violent collision of winds in stunning detail, providing new information on how stars evolve and die.