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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

Telescope sees binary star's beautiful rainbow spectra | Space photo of the day for Oct. 2, 2025

A series of brightly coloring curved colored lines creating strips of rainbow over a dark black background.

Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae's full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile's Atacama Desert. The image was captured with the newly installed SOAR Telescope Echelle Spectrograph (STELES). The new spectrum image offers fresh insights into one of the galaxy's most massive and volatile star systems.

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