After viewing Eta Carinae for a number of nights, I found this quite interesting.
Link:
Space.com
http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...collision.html
Quote:
"For the first time, astronomers have pinpointed the spot where the intense winds of two massive stars in a binary system violently collide and detected the production of high-energy X-rays there.
The monstrously large Eta Carinae binary contains between 100 and 150 times the mass of the sun and glows more brightly than four million suns together. The so-called hypergiant contains two massive stars, the second of which was not discovered until 2005."
Quote:
"Understanding the X-ray emissions from stellar winds is important because stellar winds affect the evolution of stars and the chemical evolution of the universe, while also acting as a source of energy in the galaxy."
