“Eta Carinae … is a stellar system containing at least two stars with a combined luminosity greater than five million times that of the Sun…”
“…it brightened in 1837… marking the start of its so-called “Great Eruption”.
“It became the second-brightest star in the sky between 11 and 14 March 1843 before fading well below naked eye visibility after 1856.
“… a smaller eruption … in 1892 before fading again. It has brightened consistently since about 1940…”
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae)
“From the Latin homunculus meaning Little Man, the nebula consists of gas which was ejected from Eta Carinae in 1841.”
“Within the Homunculus is a smaller Little Homunculus, and within that a shell of shocked material from stellar winds that has been called Baby Homunculus.”
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_Nebula)
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