PIX4606628: Mars Express probe - Artist's View - Mars Express artist's view - The European probe Mars Express leaves the Earth propelled by the upper floor Fregat. This probe was launched on 2 June 2003 and began its observations in early 2004. Mars Express left Earth for Mars on 2 June 2003 when the positions of the two planets made for the shortest possible route, a condition that occurs once every twenty - six months. The european spaceprobe began its March observations in 2004. Mars Express was mounted on the Fregat upper stage. Most of the energy needed to propel Mars Express from Earth to Mars is provided by the four - stage Soyuz/Fregat launcher. The Fregat upper stage separated from the spacecraft after placed it on a Mars - bound trajectory / Bridgeman Images
PIX4598479: Apollo - Soyuz: handshake between T. Stafford and A. Leonov - Apollo - Soyuz: T. Stafford and cosmonaut A. Leonov handshake - Thomas Stafford (foreground) and Aleksey Leonov make their historical hand hand on board the Apollo and Soyuz ships. 17/07/1975. Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (in foreground) and Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov make their historic handshake in space on July 17, 1975 during the joint U.S. - USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking in Earth orbit mission. This picture was made from a frame of 16 mm motion picture film / Bridgeman Images
PIX4591713: Constellation of Hercules - Constellation of Hercules - Constellation of Hercules extracted from the Uranographia of Hevelius. Recolorised image. Map showing the constellation of Hercules with its mythological form from “” Uranographia”” star atlas by Hevelius (1690). Recolored Image / Bridgeman Images
PIX4625712: Saturn - Illustration - Saturn - Illustration - Artist's view of the planet Saturn. The ring system is composed from the closest to Saturn to the furthest by ring D, then C, B, the division of Cassini, A with the division of Encke, F, G and E. The brightest part of the rings is ring B. This image suggests how Saturn might look from high above the ring plane and at a right angle to the Sun, a perspective that we could never get from the Earth nor from the Hubble Space Telescope / Bridgeman Images
PIX4655209: Mauna Kea Observatory. Radiotelescopes - Radiotelescopes at Mauna Kea Observatory - View of the Mauna Kea Observatory located 4200 metres above sea level in Hawaii, USA. Here, the radiotelescopes with in the foreground the CSO (Caltech Submillimeter Observatory), then the JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope) and the SMA antenna network (Sub - Millimeter Array). Foreground is CSO (Caltech Submillimeter Observatory), then, JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope) and background is the antennas network SMA (Sub - Millimeter Array) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4655293: Circumpolar above the dome of the 1.93 m of the Observatory of Haute - Provence - Haute - Provence Observatory, the 1.93 m telescope dome - Photographic pose showing the apparent rotation of stars around the polar star (circumpolar). Below, the dome of the 1.93 m telescope of the Observatory of Haute Provence. This is where the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995. The Observatory of Haute-Provence is located in the south-east of France, near the village of St. Michel l'Observatoire, a hundred kilometers north of Marseille, on a plateau with an average altitude of 650 meters. Long exposure image of starry sky around the pole star (circumpolar). Below, the 1.93 m telescope dome. Here has been discovered the first extrasolar planet (51 Peg b) in 1995. OHP is situated in the southeast of France, it lies at an altitude of about 650 m, near the village of Saint-Michel l'Observatoire / Bridgeman Images
PIX4650532: LHC: Installation of the ATLAS calorimeter - LHC: Installing the ATLAS calorimeter - Central view of the ATLAS detector with its eight toroid magnets surrounding the calorimeter before it is moved to the center of the detector. The calorimeter measures the energy of the particles produced during the collision between the protons in the center of the detector. The eight toroid magnets can be seen surrounding the calorimeter that is later moved into the middle of the detector. This calorimeter will measure the energies of particles produced when protons collide in the centre of the detector / Bridgeman Images