Sentences with phrase «tidal dwarf galaxy»
Young blue stars, star clusters and tidal dwarf galaxies are born in these tidal debris.
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She encouraged students to take part in this project and a number of them contributed to projects involving young stars, active galactic nuclei, and tidal dwarf galaxies.
Not exact matches
The Galactic Cushion The Hubble Space Telescope recently beamed back pictures of 29 dwarf galaxies in the Perseus Cluster that, by all appearances, should have been torn to shreds by the gravitational tidal forces of their giant neighbors.
Some stars in the spheroid are the remains of galactic cannibalism, having come from dwarf galaxies that fell into the spiral galaxy, were ripped apart by powerful tidal forces, and were incorporated into the larger galaxy's structure.
The Milky Way galaxy, perturbed by the tidal interaction with a dwarf galaxy, as predicted by N - body simulations.
Previous studies have found evidence of such mergers in tidal streams of stars in the extended halo of Andromeda, which appear to be remnants of cannibalized dwarf galaxies.
Figure 1: The Milky Way galaxy, perturbed by the tidal interaction with a dwarf galaxy, as predicted by N - body simulations.
The dwarf elliptical galaxy SagDEG in the direction of the Milky Way's center is stretched and distorted from the tidal effects of the Milky Way's strong gravity.
The outskirts of our Galaxy contain various stellar streams that are believed to be the remnants of dwarf galaxies that were torn to shreds by the strong tidal force of the Milky Way.»