A recent study reveals that the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 "pinwheel star" holds more mystery but is even less likely to be the potential "death star" it was once thought to be. Research by W.

If you want more reassurance, just skip to my conclusion below. Up until now, I hadn’t heard of WR 104. This is a binary star located 8000 light years away, more or less toward the center of our ...

A team of astronomers used three instruments from the Keck Observatory to study WR 104, a stellar system nicknamed the 'death star'. They discovered that the two massive stars composing it orbit each ...

Located approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius, the enigmatic star system WR 104 is renowned for its distinctive pinwheel-shaped nebula. New research led by W.

When we first beheld our most important Wolf-Rayet target, a star designated WR 104, on a computer monitor, it was a shimmering spiral that resembled a weirdly distorted Christmas bauble.

This binary dust formation phenomenon has been revealed in other systems such as WR 104 by co-author Peter Tuthill (University of Sydney). WR 104, in particular, reveals an elegant trail of dust ...

Although WR 104, a Wolf-Rayet star some 8000 light years distant, has thus far remained largely quiescent, it is ripe to undergo a core-collapse supernova of the sort that could generate a seconds ...

Astronomers say WR 104, a Wolf-Rayet star about 8000 light years away, could go supernova any day, which would generate gamma-rays that could reach earth. "We could see it go supernova anywhere ...

In a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team of researchers at the Keck Observatory in Hawai'i took a closer look at the system, Wolf-Rayet 104 ...

(Note 1) This binary dust formation phenomenon has been revealed in other systems such as WR 104 by co-author Peter Tuthill (University of Sydney). WR 104, in particular, reveals an elegant trail ...