PIX4633495: The Moon barely formed seen from the Earth - Illustration - The Moon barely formed seen from the Earth - Illustration - The Moon would be born from the impact of a big asteroid on Earth. The material ejected during this collision would have combined to form the Earth's satellite. This artist's view shows the Moon seen from Earth with a ring of ejectees in its orbit, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4634248: The Universe in a Hand - Artist's View - Universe in Hand: Artist's view representing the universe measuring only 10 centimetres in diameter before inflation. The universe is shown when it was only 10 centimeters in diameter, 10 ^ -32 seconds after the Big Bang., Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4630295: The formation of the Solar System - Artist view - Forming solar system - Artist view - Artist view of the gas and dust disc (protoplanetary disc) around the Sun. Little by little rocks will gather, accrete, to form planets. Planetesimals - the seeds of planets crash together in the solar nebula, gradually growing larger, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4623968: Neptune and its rings - Illustration - Neptune and its rings - Illustration - Neptune has a system of several rings; the farthest from Neptune is called Adams and contains the bows Liberte, Egalite, Fraternity and Courage. In this artist's view, the small satellites of Neptune are also represented; from the closest to the farthest from the planet, we find: Naiade, Thalassa, Despina, Galatee, Larissa and Protee, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645492: Artist view showing the Hubble Space Telescope realising the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. - Artist view showing the Hubble Space Telescope realising the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. - Artist view showing the Hubble Space Telescope realising the Hubble Ultra Deep Field., Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645711: Satellite HDST and Starshade - High Definition Space Telescope with starshade: High Definition Space Telescope (HDST) is an observation satellite project. Located at the point of Lagrange 2, this satellite equipped with a 12-metre mirror would offer images of the universe 24 times more accurate than those obtained by the Hubble space telescope. It could be accompanied by a blackout (starshade), places in space a long distance from it to block the light of a star in order to observe its exoplanets. The High Definition Space Telescope is almost twice the size of a tennis court. By using a football-field-sized shade to block the light from distant stars, the HDST could directly observe exoplanets;, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640148: Space elevator - Artist view - Space elevator - Artist view - Elevator project connects to a space station in geostationary orbit. An elevator made of unimaginably strong materials rises 22,000 miles above the equator, providing easy access to space, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640529: Interstellar ship - Artist's view - Interstellar ship diagram: Illustration of an interstellar ship 15 km long, capable of reaching Alpha from the Centaurus. A starship 10 miles long, capable of reaching the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, is depicted in this illustration. To eliminate the structural stress and high-velocity ablation of interstellar gas and dust during the deceleration phase, the ship is designed so no turnaround maneuver is necessary. The central torus is the inhabited “” seed”” of this vessel, rotating at 1 revolution per minute to create centrifugal gravity for the travelers., Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640543: Interstellar ship - Artist's view - starship arrives alpha centauri - An interstellar ship arrives in orbit around an exoplanet, after a 50-year journey to the Alpha star of the Centaurus. The bright star under the exoplanet is our Sun, a distance of 4.3 years of light. A habitat two miles across arrives to orbit a hypothetical earthlike planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri after a 50 - year voyage. The discarded braking stage of the giant starship drifts in the far background. The bright star below the planet is our sun, 4.3 light years away, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images