'Great Eruption' Nebula Visualization is 3D Printable | Video

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 11:31 in Astronomy & Space

From 1838 to 1945, the star Eta Carinae spewed nearly 40x the Sun’s mass, creating the Homunculus Nebula. Astronomers have now created a high-res 3D model of the 2-lobed cloud of gas and dust. It can be 3D printed with this file: http://goo.gl/juFz3p

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