This is the image of two suns colliding 7,500 light-years away
The explosion occurred close to 200 years ago. Eta Carinae is a binary star system. In layman terms, this is a system consisting of two rotating suns. Both stars are humongous - the first is 30 times bigger than our sun and the second, 90 times. The two had collided in 1838. By April 1844, the …
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