found this originally on di.fm then found it a few years again on the sublime Solarstone Electronic Architecture 2 Ambient edition album. some true gems on this album. highly recommended!
I've always found something amusing about time-lapse photography, almost as if we were watching ourselves as ants. And isn't it fascinating to watch clouds in high speed? It's amazing to see when, a cloud video is sped up, how much the clouds move just like water. Only they always move so slowly we never really notice them.
I didn't know it was pronounced "eat a ka rai nee" until I looked it up.
Also around the 1840s it was the second brightest star in the sky despite being 7500 light years away. That's about 20 times further away than Canopus, so it was over 500x brighter than it, and Canopus is already 10000x brighter than the Sun if it were the same distance.
So if eta carinae were the same distance away as the Sun during this eruption, it would disintegrate you faster than standing on the surface of the Sun.