[Credit: J. Morse (Arizona State U.), K. Davidson (U. Minnesota) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA]
The rose in the sky.
I do hope to one day see this in a telescope before it goes “Boom!!!”
It’s about 10 deg to far in the south for me to see it here.
I’ll probably have to go to Australia.
First recorded as a 4th magnitude star, it brightened considerably over the period 1837 to 1856 in an event known as the Great Eruption. Eta Carinae became the second brightest star in the sky between 11 and 14 March 1843 before fading well below naked eye visibility. It has brightened consistently since about 1940, peaking above magnitude 4.5 in 2014.