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The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, repaired in May, offers details on chemical elements dispatched from Eta Carinae. This narrow slice shows, among other things, iron and nitrogen in the outer reaches. Eta Carinae, first catalogued by Edmund Halley in 1677, is 7,500 light-years away in the constellation Carina.
September 11, 2009 9:49 AM PDT
Photo by: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
