Probing a New Type of Stellar Explosion
Gemini GNIRS spectroscopy of a region (spectroscopic slit aperture indicated by white box on HST image, above) of the nebulosity around Eta Carinae. Bottom image shows the resulting position-velocity plot used to determine velocities of gas in the nebula.
Credit:NOIRLab
About the Image
| Id: | gemini0806a |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | Sept. 10, 2008, 8 p.m. |
| Related releases: | gemini0806 |
| Size: | 500 x 928 px |
About the Object
| Category: | Nebulae |
