A 2D-Hydro Model for the Homunculus Nebula arount eta Carinae

Snapshot density distribution of our evolutionary model for the circumstellar gas distribution around the hypergiant star eta Carinae, at a time corresponding to the present age of the nebula. Find more details in our paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 520, pp. L49-L52 (1999). Compare to the HST image of eta Carinae here .