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this is an image of ADA Carino taken

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with the Hubble Space Telescope and

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there's a lot going on in this image if

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you go down into the very center of this

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image you can see this bright spot here

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that's actually two stars much much more

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massive than the Sun that are in orbit

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around one another so what you see here

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are these two lobes of material and they

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are from a giant eruption that this star

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had about 200 years ago and when these

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massive stars are near the ends of their

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life they become quite unstable and

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there was this a tremendous eruption

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that blew up about 20 times the mass of

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the Sun and there was a massive

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brightening of the star became one of

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the brightest stars in the sky in the

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1840s and what we see here is the result

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of that massive eruption and these lobes

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of material that are slowly making their

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way out into Interstellar space Mariners

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at the time used it as a navigation Aid

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this frightening only lasted a number of

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years and then it since faded but the

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adacrine is still a relatively bright

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star

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the dust in this homunculus nebula which

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is what it's called is going to continue

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to expand it's being illuminated by the

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here's another image of ADA Carina taken

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with Hubble it looks a little different

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Hubble Is outfitted with very

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specialized filters that can see the

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light emitted from specific atoms at

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specific wavelengths the blue shows you

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where the Magnesium is emitting light

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the red shows regions where nitrogen is

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emitting light they have different

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ionization States they respond to this

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ultraviolet light in different ways one

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of the things that happens in these

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massive stars is they're factories for

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heavier elements and that's where the

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heavy elements in our bodies and the

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Earth all come from stars like this

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supernovae and massive stars that

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process them and eject the material back

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out into space and that's sort of the

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hard work that astronomers want to do

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because we want to understand all the

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details of what's happening in this

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nebula that's what these extraordinary

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eyes that Hubble has allow us to do

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this is a very complex and volatile

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object and in fact one of the reasons

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for being interested is that on the list

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of stars that we know about in the Milky

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Way that may soon become supernovae this

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is one of them it takes about 8 000

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years for the light from Ada Karina to

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reach us and so it could already have