Astronomers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, with the help of NASA satellites and ground-based telescopes gathered enough data to create an accurate 3-D model of the “stellar monster” Eta Carinae. Eta Carinae is actually two stars locked in orbit, located 7,500 light years away, in the southern constellation of Carina. The two stars come close once every 5.5 years. … [Read more...]