The Carina Nebula contains two of the most massive and luminous stars in our Milky Way galaxy, Eta Carinae and HD 93129A. It is 7500 light years away, and the nebula itself spans some 260 light years across. Brighter than one million Suns, Eta Carinae (the brightest star in this image) is the most luminous star known in the Galaxy, and has most likely a mass over 100 times that of the Sun. It is the closest example of a luminous blue variable, the last phase in the life of a very massive star before it explodes in a Image source NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
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