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...

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...

(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...

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...

Galaxy Tail" (Press release). NASA. 20 September 2007. Archived from the original on 4 November 2008. Sun; Donahue; Voit (2007). "H-alpha tail, intracluster...

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...

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. One supernova...

and an object when describing the entire comet with its diffuse coma and tail. Astronomical objects such as stars, planets, nebulae, asteroids and comets...

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...

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...

NGC 6027e is a tidal tail of NGC 6027, not an individual galaxy, that is part of Seyfert's Sextet, a compact group of galaxies, which is located in the...

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...

During this close encounter, tidal forces drew out the spiral galaxy's stars, gases and dust, forming the conspicuous tail. The intruder galaxy, estimated...

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...

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...

The cluster is being disrupted by the galactic tide, trailing a long tidal tail. Baeza, Ian; Fernández-Trincado, José G.; Villanova, Sandro; Geisler,...

behind the group) and another "galaxy," NGC 6027e, is actually a part of the tail from galaxy NGC 6027. The gravitational interaction among these galaxies...

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...

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...

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...

whether it is an early or late-type galaxy. The northern galaxy has a tidal tail and is of late-type morphology. With the exception of the third, both...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

part of the year and tidal influence may be negligible". This broad definition also includes fjords, lagoons, river mouths, and tidal creeks. An estuary...

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...

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...