Eta Carinae • Visualization Explores a Massive Star's Great Eruption 8 The Violent Star Eta Carinae Model Is Based On Multiwavelength Observations 25.1.2022 • It was once one of the brightest stars in the heavens, easily visible to mariners navigating by the southern sky in the mid-1840s. But the star Eta Carinae quickly faded into obscurity after its brief outburst. Now, over a century and a half later, NASA space observatories (probing from infrared light through X-rays) have enabled astronome