Eta Carinae in Orange

Tuesday, December 25, 2012 - 01:30 in Astronomy & Space

This new image of the luminous blue variable Eta Carinae was taken with the NACO near-infrared adaptive optics instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, yielding an incredible amount of detail.

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