Extreme object
Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae is a star 7 500 light-years away, weighing 100 Suns.
A star of about a hundred Suns that erupted in the 1840s, briefly the second brightest in the sky, and wrapped itself in the Homunculus Nebula. A supernova waiting to happen.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Kind
- Star
- Distance
- 7 500 light-years
- Mass
- 100.00 Suns
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a ring at its measured distance; the star itself is a point at this scale — the kind of thing, not this exact one.