... 2007 July 27 . The Tidal Tail of NGC 3628 . Credit Copyright: Steve Mandel ( Galaxy Images ) . ... But, perhaps most intriguing is the spectacular tail stretching up and to the left for about 300,000 light-years from NGC 3628 ...
... Following its terrestrial namesake , the Tadpole Galaxy will likely lose its tail as it grows older, the tail's star clusters forming smaller satellites of the large spiral galaxy. ...
... That edge-on perspective looking along the broad, fanned-out dust tail as it trailed behind the comet created the appearance of an anti-tail pointing in the sunward direction, back toward the inner solar system. ...
... The yellow dust tail, reflecting sunlight, is visible sprawling to the coma's left trailing behind the comet , while the textured bluish-glowing ion tail is visible to the coma's right, pointing away from the Sun. ...
... 2007 October 3 . Comet Encke's Tail Ripped Off . Credit: Angelos Vourlidas (NRL) et al. , SECCHI / STEREO , NASA . ... But in this case, the collison carried the tail of the comet away. ...
... Following its terrestrial namesake , the Tadpole Galaxy will likely lose its tail as it grows older, the tail's star clusters forming smaller satellites of the large spiral galaxy. ...
... Comet LINEAR's tail also grew and in this mosaic of images from May 18, astronomer Gordon Garradd has carefully followed the fluorescing filaments of LINEAR's gas tail stretching 1.5 degrees (the width of three full moons) along the anti-sunward direction ...
... The Tail of a Wonderful Star . Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech, GALEX , C. Martin ( Caltech ), M. Seibert( OCIW ) . ... have only recently discovered another striking characteristic of Mira -- an enormous comet-like tail nearly 13 light-years long ...
... A Star Cluster Through Hale-Bopp's Tail . Credit and Copyright: A. Dimai, R. Volcan, D. Ghirardo ( Col Druscie Obs. , ACC ) . ... Many of the stars in this open cluster can be seen through Comet Hale-Bopp 's white dust tail. ...