The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently shared an image of a ‘slow-motion firework’ in space that it says has lasted over 150 years.
The image has since received plenty of reactions online. The image, which is of a doomed super-massive star 7,500 light-years away named Eta Carinae, was captured by NASA’s Hubble telescope.
According to the post, the massive star went through a “Great Eruption” in the 1840s that made it the second-brightest visible star in the sky for over a decade.
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The explosion was so bright that the sailors at the time used it as an important navigational star, NASA said in the post. Eta Carinae is a star system of at least two stars orbiting each other.
Its combined luminosity is said to be greater than five million times that of the sun in our solar system.