Apod 4.6

YEAH, here it is. 100 times bigger than a normal supernova, and has stayed brighter for the longest. Eta Carinae is a possible reproduction of this explosion.

APOD 4.5

A simple picture of "empty" space and a fairly unimpressive irregular galaxy.

APOD 4.4

This picture of the Carina nebula is interesting because of an article I recently read about Eta Carinea. They say that it possesses sufficient mass (it's one of the most massive and brightest stars in our galaxy) to go through a supernova 100 times that of a normal one. They've recorded one other star way outside of our galaxy that did that, and if Eta Carinae, which was supposed to explode in a few more millenia and could now proposedly blow any minute, we would see the explosion night and day.