Deep sky · Nebula in Carina · NGC 3372
Nebula
η Car Nebula
The Carina Nebula: four times the size of the Orion Nebula, brighter, and home to one of the most massive and unstable stars known.
- Type
- Nebula
- Designations
- NGC 3372
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 1.0
- Apparent size
- 2° × 2°
- Position (J2000)
- RA 10h 44m · Dec −59° 53′
History
Eta Carinae, inside it, erupted in the 1840s and became the second-brightest star in the sky, before fading from naked-eye view.
Look for
From southern skies it is a clear glow to the naked eye in the Milky Way.