Sentences with phrase «tidal tails»

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.

The galaxy in the upper part of the image contains very pronounced tidal tails — long, extended ribbons of gas, dust and stars.

The host galaxy has faint arc - shaped features called tidal tails, produced by a gravitational tug between two colliding galaxies.

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.

The dwarf's tidal tails popped out dramatically, swooping in arcs more than 100,000 light - years from the Milky Way's center.

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.

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.

According to an ESA blog post, the galaxy pictured on top has unusually long tidal tails, «long, extended ribbons of gas, dust and stars.»

By a quirk of timing, stars in one of the dwarf's tidal tails are raining down upon the sun's current position.

That potential discovery makes the location of the tidal tails «very important and very surprising,» comments astronomer Heidi Newberg of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

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).

The pairs of interacting and merging galaxies have been previously imaged using ground - based telescopes, but the Hubble images provide a dramatic improvement in detail, revealing individual star clusters, fine structure in the tidal tails, and other features.

The long tidal tails and deformations in their structure that are typical of galaxies lying so close to each other are missing completely.

Grebel and her colleagues hope to find the «orphan» tidal tails of earlier disruption events by analyzing other Sloan data.

These «tidal tails» form when stars are torn loose from the cluster and then slowly drift away.

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

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

Because the two galaxies are so close to each other and each contain so many massive stars, the upper galaxy is displaying a feature called a tidal tail, the messy stream of stars created by the gravity of one galaxy tugging at another.

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.