Famous, rare ‘pinwheel death star’ isn’t a threat after all

Famous, rare ‘pinwheel death star’ isn’t a threat after all

https://earthsky.org/upl/2025/03/Wolf-Rayet-104-pinwheel-star-Keck-Observatory-March-18-2025.png pinwheel death star: Large bright whitish-red blob in space, with long reddish tail curving around it. Thousands of tiny stars are in the background. - Wolf-Rayet 104 is a star system where two massive stars orbit each other. A huge spiral of dust circles around the stars, making it a rare pinwheel star system. - The pinwheel faces right toward us, so astronomers thought the poles of the stars did also. This could present a danger to Earth. Why? …