Explosive Star System's Turbulent Relationship Revealed in Best View Yet

[Judi Lynn]

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Explosive Star System's Turbulent Relationship Revealed in Best View Yet

By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor | October 20, 2016 09:00am ET

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One of astronomy's most famous stellar pairs sports strange structures in the windy zone between the two stars, according to new observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI).

Eta Carinae is a star system located about 7,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Carina. The new images, released today (Oct. 19), provide unprecedented detail of the windy area between the two stars, which could help scientists better understand how massive star evolution works.

ESO researchers created this stunning video of Eta Carinae to zoom into the deepest-ever view of the star system. We weaved telescope imagery and a simulation from ESO, NASA and more and set it to music by The Claypool Lennon Delirium (the tune "There Is No Underwear in Space&quot .



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[Warpy]

1. No link, so here's the animation

[AlbertCat]

2. Beautiful

The images are amazing.

The music is

The finale to "Das Rheingold" woulda been better.

[longship]

3. I prefer the finale to Götterdämmerung

Where Bruunhilde rides her horse Grain onto the funeral pier of her lover Siegfried, and the entire world burns up with them. (Everything except the Rheinmaidens, that is, who get their Rheingold back. At least they end up happy.)

It is one of the great operatic scenes. And don't get me started about the ending of Tosca.

[AlbertCat]

4. I prefer the finale to Götterdämmerung

I was thinking...y'know... going into some cosmic structure.


I love "Tosca". My fave Puccini. What a soap!

There's this hysterical legend that gets passed around backstage at operas everywhere (I used to do wardrobe) about some rather Rubinesque soprano (the name changes) who screeches her last phrase and leaps off the scenery onto a bunch of cushions, and bounces back up above the wall.
I love it.
Who cares if it's false....what an image!

Ahhhh.... opera. "An irrational entertainment". I admit I have a preference for 18th century opera, and earlier. I love the stylization of it. I love unrealistic stylized theatre. I really go for dance.


Anyway, the cosmos is violent and beautiful.

[longship]

6. Well, with Tosca, at least you know when it ends. Everybody's dead.

So it has that going for it.

My favorite lines are all Tosca's. "I live for art." "This is Tosca's kiss!" "Oh Scarpia! I'll see you before God!"

It is an opera which I would take an opera neophyte to. (That and Le Nozze di Figaro.)

Puccini is fucking awesome.

Have some Maria Callas my friend, from the absolutely astounding 1953 Victor de Sabata Tosca recording with Tito Gobbi as Scarpia.

[AlbertCat]

7. Le Nozze di Figaro.

My #1 opera. (18th century of course) It's perfection.

#2 is Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" (17th century...yikes!)

and #3 is "Les Contes de Hoffmann"


I also have a thing for Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex". There's a good film of a stage production done in Japan (so it has all these Japanese theatre elements in it... the "Speaker", who is supposed to speak in the vernacular of the audience, speaks Japanese. The libretto of the Greek myth is in Latin....very cross-cultural)
Jocasta's aria is so amazing.

Why here it is! (close ups of Jesse Norman's face (and the other singers) destroy the effect of the tall masks on their heads.... where the "face" should be. But what do you do with a film....?)

I suppose we should go to the "opera board"....

[Judi Lynn]

5. Sorry, I didn't know it was gone 'til seeing your post. Here it is, below:

http://www.space.com/34445-eta-carinae-explosive-star-system-best-views.html