Hate to reply to my own post, but here is an article from Space.com that
talks about eta a bit..

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ar_031202.html


.. wrote in message ...
Hi, I was reading some posts on a website and they mentioned the star Eta
Carinae could go Super Nova within the next 10,000-100,00 years. They also
mentioned if it did go super nova it would effect the earth. Would it
kill
everyone?

http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/etacar.html