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    A tidal tail is a thin, elongated region of stars and interstellar gas that extends into space from a galaxy. Tidal tails occur as a result of galactic...
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  • galaxies. Skeptics of this interpretation argue that VIRGOHI21 is simply a tidal tail of the nearby galaxy NGC 4254. VIRGOHI21 was detected through radio telescope...
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  • Galaxy Tail" (Press release). NASA. 20 September 2007. Archived from the original on 4 November 2008. Sun; Donahue; Voit (2007). "H-alpha tail, intracluster...
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    William Herschel in 1784. It has an approximately 300,000 light-years long tidal tail. Along with M65 and M66, NGC 3628 forms the Leo Triplet, a small group...
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    suggestive of tidal debris created by a recent galaxy-to-galaxy interaction. A deep R-band image reveals the presence of an extended tidal tail from north...
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    curved tidal tail found extending 60 kiloparsecs towards the north-east, suggesting it has gone through a major merger with a disk galaxy. The tidal tail is...
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    irregular blue Magellanic spiral; G2, the yellow compact spiral with a tidal tail; and G3, a more distant spiral often seen in wide field images. SN 2021afdx...
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    and an object when describing the entire comet with its diffuse coma and tail. Astronomical objects such as stars, planets, nebulae, asteroids and comets...
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    The cluster is being disrupted by the galactic tide, trailing a long tidal tail. This color-magnitude diagram was made using near-infrared images of the...
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    (redder) stars migrating to a coma (tail) region. The fainter stars that extend out to the south and west may form a tidal tail due to a past interaction. The...
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    Tidal locking between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies occurs when one of the objects reaches a state where there is no longer any net change...
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    association: it has a redshift similar to the Hickson galaxies, and a tidal tail appears to connect it with NGC 7319. Using its Mid Infrared Instrument...
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    Serpens (section Tail stars)
    gravity, forming a tidal tail over 30000 light-years long. It is over 11 billion years old. It has also been flattened and distorted by tidal effects. The L134/L183...
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    During this close encounter, tidal forces drew out the spiral galaxy's stars, gases and dust, forming the conspicuous tail. The intruder galaxy, estimated...
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    galaxy is a gravitationally unbound background object and another galaxy a tidal tail of stars. Copeland Septet "NAME NGC 7331 Group". SIMBAD. Centre de données...
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    is a peculiar galaxy showing an interesting detail. It has a sweeping tidal tail feature, which seems to offer hints of evolution and makes the galaxy...
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    is a galaxy in the constellation Virgo. It is most well noted for its tidal tail, which formed after the galaxy collided with the Virgo Cluster some 54...
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    Lyrae class and one is a SX Phe variable. There is some evidence for a tidal tail. Shapley, Harlow; Sawyer, Helen B. (August 1927), "A Classification of...
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    the other one is an elliptical galaxy being connected by a bridge and tidal tail made of dust and gas. The nucleus of PGC 32620 is active and it is classified...
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    galaxy. J1000+1242 has disturbed morphology indicating a galaxy merger. A tidal tail is clearly seen elongating away from the host galaxy towards south by...
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    nucleus. There is also evidence of a bipolar superbubble. The merger has a tidal tail extending southwards for 40 kiloparsecs, that is seen edge-on. Also south...
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    body while the smaller galaxy (the westernmost object), has a curved tidal tail pulled downwards from the object. A third galaxy is possibly shown as...
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  • 2019). "Hickson Compact Group 98: a complex merging group with a giant tidal tail and a humongous envelope". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...
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    nucleus. The galaxy has a tidal tail, seen edge on, and a faint halo of stars that was created during the merger. A second tidal tail appears to loop around...
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  • as of 2020. The Sun is currently calculated to be passing through the tidal tail of Gliese 514's Oort cloud. Thus, future interstellar objects passing...
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    and contains a small tidal dwarf galaxy known as Ambartsumian's Knot that is believed to be the remnant of the extensive tidal tail pulled out of one of...
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    chance that the Solar System will be pulled outward into the Milky Way's tidal tail and a 3% chance that it will become gravitationally bound to Andromeda...
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    Galactic tide (redirect from Tidal loops)
    flung off into intergalactic space, forming tidal tails. Such tails are typically strongly curved. If a tail appears to be straight, it is probably being...
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    72. The interaction of the two galaxies has created a long and faint tidal tail about 3.8 arcminutes long curving away from the northern edge of the disk...
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    envelope has an extension at its eastern side to the north that could be a tidal tail. The two galaxies belong in the same galaxy cloud as Messier 77 and its...
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