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 ...

For over a decade, a star system on the verge of unleashing a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on Earth. The so-called "Death Star," which is also famed for looking like a ...

revealing it is not likely to live up to its "death star" reputation. Located approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius, the enigmatic star system WR 104 is ...