The European southern Observatory (ESO) reports that an international team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope interferometer of the received image is an Image of the Keel with a record resolution.
ETA Carinae is a double star-a hypergiant in the constellation Carina, with a total luminosity component, more than 5 million times greater than the solar luminosity. The property is situated at a distance of 7,500 light-years from us.
The star is very active and emits into space stellar winds with speeds up to ten million kilometers per hour. The area between the stars components system in which the winds from each of them faced extremely turbulent, but still was unavailable for the study. Now this gap is eliminated.
A new picture in the region between these two components in the Keel, where the stellar wind, rushing from the smaller and hotter of the two stars, is faced with a more dense wind from the more pairs of stars, clearly emerges an unexpected fan-shaped structure.
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“Our dream has come true — we got exceptionally sharp images dual in infrared light. The very Large Telescope Interferometer has given us a unique opportunity to deepen our understanding of the physics of the processes occurring in the system These of the Keel and many other objects, “say the researchers.
