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Eta Carinae - 5

The central star can't be seen in the Hubble Space Telescope image - the star is burning so ferociously and throwing out such massive amounts of dust and gas, that visible light from the star is blocked from reaching us.

View the original source of this material at the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Site