article_snippet.sent: This means that, for close encounters, the gravitational pull of the star and the associated tides, caused by the difference in gravity's pull on the near and far side of a planet, are greatly enhanced.
article_snippet.sent: This means that, for close encounters, the gravitational pull of the star and the associated tidesthe associated tides, caused by the difference in gravity's pull on the near and far side of the planet, are greatly enhanced.
article_snippet.sent: A planet is first pulled away from A planet by the gravity of the dense concentration of stars in a globular cluster,' the experts write. '
article_snippet.sent: When such a planet passes too close to a white dwarf, such a planet can be torn apart by the intense tidal forces of a white dwarf. '
article_snippet.sent: In theoretical models of a disruption of a planet by the gravitational tidal forces of a white dwarf, a planet is first pulled away from a planet parent star by the gravity of the dense concentration of stars in a globular cluster.
article_snippet.sent: When such a planet passes too close to a white dwarf, such a planet can be torn apart by the intense tidal forces of the white dwarf.