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Carina (the keel) is a southern constellationOrion is a remarkable constellation, visible from most places on the globe (but not always the whole year long). A constellation is a group of stars visibly related to each other in a particular configuration. In three-dimensional space, most of the stars which forms part of the old constellation of Argo Navis. It contains Canopus, the second brightest starFor alternate meanings see star (disambiguation Hubble Space Telescope of the Sagittarius Star Cloud in the Milky Way Galaxy. A star is any massive gaseous celestial body in outer space. Stars appear as shining points in the nighttime sky that twinkle bec in the night sky, and the supermassive star eta CarinaeHubble Space Telescope image showing debris from past eruptions and the star itself. Eta Carinae is a very large (100-150 times as much mass as the Sun) and bright (about 4 million times as bright) star, a luminous blue variable in the constellation Carin.