Bright Star Eta Carinae and The Carina Nebula | Curtis Schmidt Telescope
This image shows a giant star-forming region in the southern sky known as the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), combining light from 3 filters tracing emissions from oxygen (blue), hydrogen (green), and sulfur (red). The color is also representative of the temperature in the ionized gas: blue is relatively hot and red is cooler.
The Carina Nebula is a good example of how very massive stars rip apart the molecular clouds that give birth to them. The bright star near the center of the image is Eta Carinae. It is one of the most massive and luminous stars known. This picture is a composite of several exposures made with the Curtis Schmidt Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory.
AG Carinae (AG Car) is a star in the constellation of Carina. It is classified as a luminous blue variable (LBV). The great distance (20,000 light-years) and intervening dust mean that the star is not usually visible to the naked eye; its apparent brightness varies erratically between magnitude 5.7 and 9.0.
Curtis Schmidt Telescope
Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/N. Smith (University of Minnesota)
Release Date: June 30, 2020
Release Date: June 30, 2020
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