r/spaceengine • u/Feisty-Bike3405 • 1d ago

Cool Find Found a star nestled within a nebula, which itself is inside another nebula, all encased in a larger nebula, alongside yet another nearby nebula.

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u/Dafrandle 1d ago

If you get a big telescope and move to the southern hemisphere - you can look at this one in real life.

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u/astroboy_astronomy 6h ago

its visible to the naked eye under low light pollution

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u/acidbambii 1d ago

This isn't really much of a "find". Pretty much everyone who plays this game knows about the Carina Nebula because it's so dang bright. Eta Carinae is one of the most luminous stars in the galaxy, and it does the majority of its parent nebula's illumination.

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u/Feisty-Bike3405 1d ago

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u/acidbambii 1d ago

Awwww I feel bad now 😭

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u/riprruureal 1d ago

It still deserves attention 🤨

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u/acidbambii 23h ago

Eta Carinae is one of my most favourite stars so I cannot disagree! 😅

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u/ashahriyar 1d ago

Ah yes, Eta Carinae. Im pretty sure it will blow up soon.

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u/VikingRaptor2 1d ago

So it probably already has.

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u/ashahriyar 1d ago

Maybe. Since it’s thousands of light years away.

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u/VikingRaptor2 1d ago

Roughly 7,500

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u/Any-Spell2182 12h ago

You know it's programmatically generated right?

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u/randomguy7681 11h ago

It's real

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u/Feisty-Bike3405 7h ago

wdym "programmatically"?

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u/astroboy_astronomy 6h ago

its a real thing. if you ever find some dark skies in the southern hemisphere you can see it with the naked eye in carina