PIX4652290: ALMA - Plateau de Chajnantor - 2011 - Chajnantor plateau and starry sky - Alma Network. Chajnantor Plateau, 5100 m altitude, Chile. October 2011. Panoramic view of ALMA antennas. The large and small Magellanic clouds are visible to the right of the picture while Orion and the pleiades are rising in the middle. Bright Jupiter is shining in the dim and subtil lights of the Gegenschein. Chajnantor plateau in Atacama Desert, Chile. October 2011 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652301: ALMA - Plateau de Chajnantor - 2011 - Chajnantor plateau and starry sky - Alma Reseau. The Moon shines in the center of the lactee lane. Chajnantor Plateau, 5100 m altitude, Chile. October 2011. ALMA under the Moon in Milky Way. Chajnantor plateau in Atacama Desert, Chile. October 2011 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652317: The parrot has pallet, Prioniturus discurus. Psittacus discurus. Lithograph of Joseph Kidd, based on a drawing by John Audubon, in Miscellany of Natural History: Parrots, Sir Thomas DiK Lauder and Captain Thomas Brown, published in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1833. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652364: Varieties of butterflies including a swallowtail. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652410: Sea urchins and their spines. Slate pencil urchin, Heterocentrotus mamillatus, Echinus mammillaris 8, long-spined urchin, Diadema setosum, Echinus setosa 10, cake urchins, Clypeaster species 12-17. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities of Johann Ambrosius Beurer. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652436: Varieties of tin ores. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652505: Cross-section through chambered nautilus shell, Nautilus pompilius (Nautilus crassus) 1, small nautilus, Nautilus pompilius suluensis 2, greater argonaut with narrow keel, Argonauta argo (Nautilus papyraceus) 3, and greater argonaut with broad keel 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652539: Whelk, Buccinum undatum 1, Noah's ark, Arca noae 2, noble pen shell, Pinna nobilis 3, Tusus brevis 4, Caltrop murex, Murex tribulus 5, Admiral cone, Conus admiralis 6, volute, Voluta arenata 7, limpet, Patella vulgata 8, and elegant Venus clam, Pitar dione 9. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities of D. de Hagen, P.L. Muller and A.M. Schadeloock. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652596: Radiotelescopes ALMA - The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) - Artwork - Artist's view of the European network of submilimeter antennas Alma located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), one of the largest ground - based astronomy projects of the next decade, is a major new facility for world astronomy. ALMA will be comprised of a giant array of 12 - m submillimetre quality antennas, with baselines of several kilometers. An additional, compact array of 7 - m and 12 - m antennas is also foreseen. Construction of ALMA started in 2003 and will be completed in 2010. The ALMA project is an international collaboration between Europe, Japan and North America in cooperation with the Republic of Chile / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652609: Radiotelescopes ALMA - The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) - Artwork - Artist's view of the European network of submilimetric antennas ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), one of the largest ground - based astronomy projects of the next decade, is a major new facility for world astronomy. ALMA will be comprised of a giant array of 12 - m submillimetre quality antennas, with baselines of several kilometers. An additional, compact array of 7 - m and 12 - m antennas is also foreseen. Construction of ALMA started in 2003 and will be completed in 2010. The ALMA project is an international collaboration between Europe, Japan and North America in cooperation with the Republic of Chile / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652706: Telescope Gemini south - Gemini South Telescope - The dome of the 8.2 m Gemini south telescope on Cerro Pachon in Chile. Gemini south telescope at summit of Cerro Pachon in Chile / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652740: Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, with hood. White-breasted falcon, Falco nisus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jakob-Andreas Eisemann after an illustration from nature by Barbara Regina Dietzsch from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652758: Telescope Gemini south - Gemini South Telescope - The 8.2 m Gemini south telescope. Cerro Pachon, Chile. Gemini south telescope. Cerro Pachon, Chile / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652783: Telescope Gemini south - Gemini South Telescope - The dome of the 8.2 m Gemini south telescope on Cerro Pachon in Chile. Gemini south telescope at summit of Cerro Pachon in Chile / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652805: Telescope SOAR - Chile - SOAR Telescope - The dome of the 4 m telescope SOAR (Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope). Cerro Pachon, Chile. SOAR (Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope) is a 4 - meter telescope located on Cerro Pachon in Chile / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652829: Cerro Tololo Observatory - Chile - Cerro Tololo Observatory - Chile - Cerro Tololo Observatory seen from Cerro Pachon, Chile. Cerro Tololo observatory seen from Cerro Pachon. Chile / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652838: Gemsbok or gemsbuck, Oryx gazella (Chamois d'Afrique). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jakob-Andreas Eisemann from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652845: Head of a greater kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, horns of Alpine ibex, Capra ibex, dorcas gazelle, Gazella dorcas, and kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros. The head of a Coutou from Africa, an Ibex horn, the horn of a goat from Libya, Capra dorcas, the horn of a Coutou. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by Christian Leinberger from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by P.L. Muller. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652876: Greater kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros (Un coutou d'Afrique). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jakob-Andreas Eisemann from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652901: Indian rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis, and horns of a critically endangered black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jakob-Andreas Eisemann after an illustration from nature by Johann Christoph Keller from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652940: Cerro Tololo Observatory - Cerro Tololo Observatory - Blanco 4m telescope: The Lactee Way above the 4m Blanco telescope of Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile. The Blanco 4m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory is seen here profiled on the center of the Milky Way. CTIO is at the top of Cerro Tololo, a 2300m peak in the Chilean Andes / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652988: Milky Way above Cerro Armazones - Star sky at the top of Cerro Armazones. This 3060-metre mountain in Chile will host the giant telescope E - ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope). The construction of this 42-metre telescope is expected to start at the end of 2010 and will be inaugurated around 2018. Its main mirror will consist of 906 hexagonal mirrors assembled together, and its total surface will be equal to that of a football field. On 26 April 2010, the ESO Council selected Cerro Armazones as the baseline site for the planned 42 - metre European Extremely Large Telescope (E - ELT). Cerro Armazones is a mountain at an altitude of 3060 metres in the central part of Child's Atacama Desert, some 130 kilometres south of the town of Antofagasta and about 20 kilometres from Cerro Paranal, home of Eso's Very Large Telescope / Bridgeman Images

PIX4653061: Telescope E - ELT - Artist's view - European Extremely Large Telescope - Artwork - Artist's view of the E - ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope), a telescope project measuring 42 metres in diameter. Construction of this European project could start in 2010, with a planned inauguration around 2017. Its main mirror will consist of 906 hexagonal mirrors assembled together, and its total surface will be equal to that of a football field. With a 42 - m diameter primary mirror, the present baseline, its total rotating mass is 5500 tons. The two platforms on each side of the structure hold large instruments. The telescope features a novel, innovative design, based on 5 mirrors. The primary 42 - m mirror is composed of 906 segments, each 1.45 m wide, while the secondary mirror is as large as 6 m in diameter. A tertiary mirror, 4.2 m in diameter, relays the light to the adaptive optics system, composed of two mirrors: a 2.5 - m mirror supported by 5000 or more actuators so as to be able to distort its own shape a thousand times per second, and one 2.7 m in diameter that allows for the final image corrections. This five mirror approach results in an exceptional image quality, with no significant aberrations in the field of view / Bridgeman Images

PIX4653068: Telescope E - ELT - Artist's view - European Extremely Large Telescope - Artwork - Artist's view of the E - ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope), a telescope project measuring 42 metres in diameter. Construction of this European project could start in 2010, with a planned inauguration around 2017. Its main mirror will consist of 906 hexagonal mirrors assembled together, and its total surface will be equal to that of a football field. With a 42 - m diameter primary mirror, the present baseline, its total rotating mass is 5500 tons. The two platforms on each side of the structure hold large instruments. The telescope features a novel, innovative design, based on 5 mirrors. The primary 42 - m mirror is composed of 906 segments, each 1.45 m wide, while the secondary mirror is as large as 6 m in diameter. A tertiary mirror, 4.2 m in diameter, relays the light to the adaptive optics system, composed of two mirrors: a 2.5 - m mirror supported by 5000 or more actuators so as to be able to distort its own shape a thousand times per second, and one 2.7 m in diameter that allows for the final image corrections. This five mirror approach results in an exceptional image quality, with no significant aberrations in the field of view / Bridgeman Images

PIX4653079: Telescope E - ELT - Artist's view - European Extremely Large Telescope - Artwork - Artist's view of the E - ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope), a telescope project measuring 40 metres in diameter. Its main mirror will consist of 906 hexagonal mirrors assembled together, and its total surface will be equal to that of a football field. Artist's impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E - ELT) in its enclosure on Cerro Armazones, a 3060 - metre mountaintop in Chile's Atacama Desert. The 40 - metre - class E - ELT will be the largest optical/infrared telescope in the world - - the world's biggest eye on the sky. Operations are planned to start early in the next decade, and the E - ELT will tackle some of the biggest scientific challenges of our time / Bridgeman Images

PIX4653083: Telescope ELT - Artist's view. - 3 - dimensional model of the European Extremely Large Telescope - Artist's view of the ELT (Extremely Large Telescope), a telescope project measuring 42 metres in diameter. Construction of this European project could start in 2010, with a planned inauguration around 2017. Its main mirror will consist of 906 hexagonal mirrors assembled together, and its total surface will be equal to that of a football field. With a 42 - m diameter primary mirror, the present baseline, its total rotating mass is 5500 tons. The two platforms on each side of the structure hold large instruments. The telescope features a novel, innovative design, based on 5 mirrors. The primary 42 - m mirror is composed of 906 segments, each 1.45 m wide, while the secondary mirror is as large as 6 m in diameter. A tertiary mirror, 4.2 m in diameter, relays the light to the adaptive optics system, composed of two mirrors: a 2.5 - m mirror supported by 5000 or more actuators so as to be able to distort its own shape a thousand times per second, and one 2.7 m in diameter that allows for the final image corrections. This five mirror approach results in an exceptional image quality, with no significant aberrations in the field of view / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653118: Hinegeshi or corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas (poppy) Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653186: Shirojinchouge or winter daphne, Daphne odora, native to Asia. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649628: Louis van Houtte rose, hybrid variety raised by Monsieur Lacharme in Lyon in 1869 and dedicated to the famous Belgian nursery owner. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Franã§ois / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649651: Fox, Extirpated Species, Cerdocyon mesoleucus - Lithograph by Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith to illustrate Naturalist's Library: Dogs by Sir William Jardine, W. H Lizars Edition, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1839 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4649669: Shuttle Endeavour landing 06/2011 - Space Shuttle Endeavour landing 06/2011 - Shuttle Endeavour landing at Kennedy Space Center. Mission STS-134, 1 June 2011. Space shuttle Endeavour approaches Runway 15 on the Shuttle Landing Facility at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the final time. Main gear touchdown was at 2:34:51 a.m. (EDT) on June 1, 2011, followed by nose gear touchdown at 2:35:04 a.m., and wheelstop at 2:35:36 a.m. Onboard are NASA astronauts Mark Kelly, STS - 134 commander; Greg H. Johnson, pilot; Michael Fincke, Andrew Feustel, Greg Chamitoff and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori, all mission specialists. STS-134 delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - 2 (AMS) and the Express Logistics Carrier - 3 (ELC-3) to the International Space Station. AMS will help researchers understand the origin of the universe and search for evidence of dark matter, strange matter and antimatter from the station. ELC - 3 carried spare parts that will sustain station operations once the shuttles are retired from service. STS - 134 was the 25th and final flight for Endeavour, which has spent 299 days in space, orbited Earth 4,671 times and traveled 122,883,151 miles / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649697: Cape lion. Lithograph of William Lizars, based on a drawing by Charles Hamilton Smith, for “” Bibliotheque naturaliste, mammals, les felins”, by Sir William Jardine, published in 1834 in Edinburgh (Scotland). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4649713: Shuttle Atlantis - Last Shuttle Flight - July 2011 - Liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis - Final mission of Space Shuttle Program. July 2011 - Launch of the Atlantis space shuttle on July 8, 2011. Mission STS-135, last flight of American space shuttles. At Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis lifts off of Launch Pad 39A leaving behind billows of steam and smoke as it heads past the tower on its STS - 135 mission to the International Space Station. Atlantis with its crew of four; Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, lifted off at 11:29 a.m. EDT on July 8, 2011 to deliver the Raffaello multi - purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts for the International Space Station. Atlantis also will fly the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment that will investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing satellites in orbit. In addition, Atlantis will return with a failed ammonia pump module to help NASA better understand the failure mechanism and improve pump designs for future systems. STS - 135 is the 33rd flight of Atlantis, the 37th shuttle mission to the space station, and the 135th and final mission of NASA's Space Shuttle Program / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649721: Indian rose, Rose de Bengal, Rosa indica, and Primula auricula, bear ear. Handcoloured botanical engraving from “” Le Jardinier Fleuriste, dedie aux dames,” Paris, 1819. The verses are signed by Laurent-Pierre Berenger (1749-1822), who may be the author of this work. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649756: Arapaima, Arapaima gigas (Gigantic sudis, Sudis gigas). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburg's Fishes of Guiana, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ichthyology, Edinburgh, 1841. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4649758: Shuttle Atlantis - Last Shuttle Flight - July 2011 - Liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis - Final mission of Space Shuttle Program. July 2011 - Launch of the Atlantis space shuttle on July 8, 2011. Mission STS-135, last flight of American space shuttles. Smoke and steam billow outward as space shuttle Atlantis lifts off on twin columns of flame from Launch Pad 39A at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as it begins its STS - 135 mission to the International Space Station. Atlantis with its crew of four; Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, lifted off at 11:29 a.m. EDT on July 8, 2011 to deliver the Raffaello multi - purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts for the station. Atlantis also will fly the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment that will investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing satellites in orbit. In addition, Atlantis will return with a failed ammonia pump module to help NASA better understand the failure mechanism and improve pump designs for future systems. STS - 135 is the 33rd flight of Atlantis, the 37th shuttle mission to the space station, and the 135th and final mission of NASA's Space Shuttle Program / Bridgeman Images