Sentences with phrase «tidal tail»

Hubble's collection of galaxy collision images vividly illustrates the progression of a collision from approach to interaction, through tidal tail development, and ending in the merger of the galaxies.

The smaller galaxy's wispy, shredded parts, called a tidal tail, can be seen coming out below the larger galaxy.

These objects move in a common direction within a plane defined by the orientation and motion of their tidal tail.

Material stripped from the galaxy during its collision with a smaller galaxy (seen in the upper left corner of the larger interaction partner) forms a long tidal tail.

Such interactions often form streamer - like tidal tails as seen in Arp 256, as well as bridges of gas, dust and stars between the galaxies.

Now, the full extent of these «tidal tails» has been traced for the first time, thanks to a recently finished atlas called the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS).

But the galaxies pull strongly on one another via gravity, distorting their shapes and ripping stars and gas clouds off each other to form so - called tidal tails.

This meant that objects that look similar to lenses, such as galaxy mergers, tidal tails and spiral arms, pairs of blue stars and so on, were specifically excluded from the training set, and therefore we expect some of those types of object to appear in the stage 1 candidate list.

RAMIREZ - RUIZ: As these neutron stars come together, the stars eject some material in their tidal tails into space at very close to the speed of light.

Not exact matches

You'll still have plenty of fun design options to choose from because the tails come in nine different colors: Arctic Blue, Asian Magenta, Aussie Green, Barracuda Black, Celtic Green, Malibu Pink, Rainbow Reef, Tidal Teal, and Tropical Sunrise.

It is too faint to tell for now, but if Segue 2 has a tail of stars streaming away from it into the Milky Way, that's strong proof for the tidal stripping scenario, says Kirby.

The small fish, which uses its front fins and tail to move on land, lives in tidal areas near shore, spending time in the water and on sandy and muddy surfaces.

Langebaan Lagoon extends in a finger of water away from Saldanha Bay, its 16 kilometres controlled by tidal currents, tailing off into salt marshes and a cluster of salt pans, rich with water bird life.

Thankfully, the tidal wave of games hitting in March is finally reaching its tail end.