PIX4583359: Supernova and Planet - Artist's View - Supernova Explosion - Artist view - A planet devastee by the intense radiation emitted by the explosion of a star. Mountain ranges melt on the outer planet of a star that has gone supernova. Even before the wave of ejecta from the exploding star reaches the planet, the unimaginably intense radiation has turned the world's crust molten, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4573965: Super Terre et Dwarf Rouge - Red Dwarf on the horizon of a Super - Earth - Illustration showing the surface of an extrasolar terrestrial planet, a super Earth, much older than our planet. In the sky, her star, a red dwarf. The exoplanet, too close to its star, knows extreme temperatures making life impossible. Much older than earth and tidally - locked toward its sun, the planet's surface has been eroded by the fierce winds that howl across the twilight zone between eternal day and night, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4572453: Artist view of Gliese 710 near the cloud of Oort - Gliese 710 near Oort cloud - Artist view - The star Gliese 710 is a red dwarf of our galaxy, located about 63 years ago - light from the Sun. This star has its own movement and is approaching our solar system that it may reach within 1.4 million years. The cloud of Oort could be disturbed. Comets in our solar system's Oort Cloud are disturbed by the passing of a nearby dwarf star, Gliese 710, in the distant future, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4607482: Project Daedalus - Vue d'artiste - Daedalus project - Artist view - Daedalus was an interstellar space probe project written in the 1970s. The aim was to make a probe capable of examining the Barnard star system in order to study possible planets. A crewed starship based on the British Interplanetary Society's 1970's Daedalus design fires its nuclear pulse engine in interstellar space. The engine, capable of producing 0.01 gravity acceleration, boosts the ship to 10 percent the speed of light after ten years of thrust, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4626297: Saturn seen from his satellite Japet - Saturn as seen from Iapetus - Artist's view of the surface of the satellite Japet and the planet Saturn eclipsing the Sun. Saturn as seen from Iapetus Saturn produces a “” diamond ring”” effect as it eclipses the sun in this perspective from the satellite Iapetus. Artist view, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4613953: Active galaxies in collision - Artist view - Active galaxies collide - Artist view - Artist view of a quasar whose jet is powered by the material of a galaxy rentree in collision. Active galaxies collide, feeding matter to the central black holes that power quasars, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4634142: Evolution of the universe: from the dark age to galaxies - In this diagram, the upper left represents the cosmic Dark Age, when the universe was so hot that atoms could not form and photons could not travel freely. The red area represents the de-ionization era, when the universe became transparent. The Cosmic Background Radiation comes from this time, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640370: Artist view of a spacecraft and a comet - A spacecraft approaching a comet - Artist view - Artist view of a spacecraft approaching a comet on Earth. Illustration made for the cover of Gregory Benford's novel “Dans l'ocean de la nuit” (in the ocean of night). A spacecraft approaches a comet that is on a collision course with earth, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images