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.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140. "Shells of cosmic dust created by the interaction of binary stars appear ...