Eta Car — still an enigma

By Michael on March 29, 2009 at 10:53 am | In Astrophysics, Blog Posts | No Comments

Eta Carinae is an enigma. Look it up, it totally is. And it doesn’t look like that is going to change anytime soon! The image at right shows 3 cycles of the X-ray light curve. You can see the most recent event is quite different than previous events. We are watching one of the most massive stars possible changing on ridiculously short times scales.

What is going on? We don’t know.