NASA’s Chandra rewinds story of great eruption of the 1840s
Credit: NASA / SAO / GSFC / M. Corcoran et al. Using snapshots taken over 20 years with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have learned important new details about an eruption from Eta Carinae witnessed on Earth in the mid-19th century. Chandra data spanning decades has been combined into a new movie that contains frames