Eta Carinae will explode soon but luckily it is not pointing our way Sooner or later, a catastrophe from space will wipe out almost all life on Earth. The few who might survive will wish they had died, they will struggle, forlornly, on a wrecked planet According to Dr Arnon Dar, of the Technion Space Research Institute, Israel, a particular type of exploding star going off anywhere in our region of the Universe would devastate our planet. Using the latest statistics and calculations, he argues that a supermassive star collapsing at the end of its lifetime would form a...