FLO4623527: Ceremony of the creation of a knight. A king dubs a kneeling warrior with a sword, while pages hold his spurs and shield with coat of arms. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after P.L. Sabatelli from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, 1844. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4623563: Helix planetary nebula (NGC 7293) in Aquarius by HST - Helice's planetary nebula, located in Aquarius, is one of the closest to Earth (650 years - light) and is also one of the most extended. Its apparent diameter is about half of the full moon. It was obtained from two clicks taken by the ACS panoramic camera of the Hubble Space Telescope and from the 90 cm telescope of Kitt Peak in Arizona. It reveals unseen details of the filamentary structure of the blue and red gas ring that surrounds the starred star (in the centre of the nebula). In the center of the image, the star that expelled its material became a white dwarf / Bridgeman Images

FLO4623982: Indian sapuriya or snake charmers performing to music from a tobrie or pipe musician. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844., Bernieri, Andrea (1792-1849) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4623990: Neptune bombardee of comets - Illustration - Neptune bombardee of comets - Illustratio, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624024: Indian transport: sedan chair or palanquins. Long palanquin, miyana, jhalidar palki, and copala palki. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844., Bernieri, Andrea (1792-1849) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624032: Burmese court officials to the Emperor. Chief minister and counsellor (Woongee, Woondock) at left, privy counsellor and first secretary (Attawoon and Sere Dogee) and rhaan or priest with fan. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624085: Court women of Burma in ceremonial dress. Servant bowing, chief counsellor or woonge's wife with fan, privy counsellor or attawoon's wife, and counsellor or woondoc's wife with fan. Adapted from Michael Symes' An account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624115: A kioum or Buddhist monastery in Burma. After an illustration in Michael Symes' Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4624208: Carlos Sanchez Infrared Telescope - Tenerife Observatory: 1.52 m Infrared Telescope / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624221: Plants of Sumatra including clove 1, mangosteen 3, rambutan 4 and black pepper 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624233: Traditional stilt houses in a village in Sumatra, circa 1800. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624248: Mentawai people of Pagai, with tattoos, canoe and paddle, Mentawai Islands, Sumatra, Indonesia. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4624299: Star Sky on Big Pines Highway - Big Pines Highway at night: Joshua Tree National Park, California, November 2016. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4624339: Pluto seen by the New Horizons probe - Pluto seen by New Horizons - Pluto seen by the New Horizons probe on July 7, 2015 at a distance of 8 million km from the dwarf planet. In the early morning hours of July 8, 2015, mission scientists received this new view of Pluto - - the most detailed yet returned by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard New Horizons. The image was taken on July 7, when the NASA spacecraft was just under 5 million miles (8 million kilometers) from Pluto, and is the first to be received since the July 4 anomaly that sent the spacecraft into safe mode. This view is centered roughly on the area that will be seen close - up during New Horizons' July 14 closest approach. This side of Pluto is dominated by three broad regions of varying brightness. Most prominent are an elongated dark feature at the equator, informally known as “” the whale,”” and a large heart - shaped bright area measuring some 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) across on the right. Above those features is a polar region that is intermediate in brightness / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624386: Inside a Maori fortified village or pa (Hippah), New Zealand. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Andrea Bernieri after John Webber from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624402: Kanak natives of New Caledonia. Man in loincloth with spear and mace, woman in grass skirt, in front of huts. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4624474: Pluto seen by the New Horizons probe: Pluto seen in false colors by the New Horizons probe. Composite image created from images obtained on July 14, 2015 - Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Pluto's surface sports a remarkable range of subtle colors, enhanced in this view to a rainbow of pale blues, yellows, oranges, and deep reds. Many landforms have their own distinct colors, telling a complex geological and climatological story that scientists have only just begun to decode. The image resolves details and colors on scales as small as 0.8 miles (1.3 kilometers). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624540: Marquesas Islanders wearing headdresses in war canoes or outrigger canoes in Resolution Bay or Vaitahu. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624612: Morai or sacred cemetery on Kauai, Hawaii, Atooi. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Bernieri after John Webber from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624655: Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, in hussar uniform 4, with the royal herald 3 and bishop 5, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624657: Captain of the Hungarian Guards, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624675: Coronation of the Queen Consort of Hungary by the Pope in the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Stephen, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624678: National costumes of the Hungarians, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624684: National costumes of the Hungarians, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4624709: Masters of the Horse, Hungarian Army, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4637858: La Voie lactee from one horizon to the other- Pointe du Raz - Milky way - 180* panorama - Pointe du Raz - At the end of September, at the end of the night, the horizon East presents a scattered and inclined light band: it is the zodiacal light generated by dust near the Sun located in the plane of the solar system. This glow is visible at the top of the photo. It extends to the lactee road over forty degrees high. Here, on this view of more than 180*, it is easily visible despite the glows of the city of Audierne. In overprint, the mythological forms of these constellations, extracted from the Uranographia of Hevelius. Brittany, 27 September 2008. At the end of September, at the end of the night, the East horizon is displaying a faint, fuzzy and tilted glow: it's the zodiacal light formed by the dust near the Sun along the plan of the Solar System. It extends to about 40* of elevation. In this 180* panorama, the zodiacal light is easily visible despite the glow of the city of Audierne, crossing the Milky Way. Mythological Constellations forms from “” Uranographia”” star atlas by Hevelius (1690) have been added. Brittany, 27 September 2008 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637871: Glycine botanical study, 1897 (lithograph), Grasset, Eugene (1841-1917) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4637896: Lactee - Panorama - Lactee - Panorama - Photographic mosaic reconstructing the entire lactee path visible in the north hemisphere, on the left, and from the south hemisphere, on the right / Bridgeman Images

PIX4637908: Panorama of the Milky Way - Panorama of the Milky Way - Photographic mosaic reconstructing the entire lactee path. The shots taken between summer 2008 and summer 2009 were taken from two perfect astronomical sites, the Atacama desert for the southern hemisphere, the Caldera de Taburiente in the Canary Islands for the boreal hemisphere. This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, reveals the cosmic landscape that surrounds our tiny blue planet. The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth, cuts a luminous swath across the image. From this vantage point, the general components of our spiral galaxy come clearly into view, including its disc, marbled with both dark and glowing nebulae, which harbours bright, young stars, as well as the Galaxy's central bulge and its satellite galaxies. As filming extended over several months, objects from the Solar System came and went through the star fields, with bright planets such as Venus and Jupiter / Bridgeman Images

PIX4637918: The infrared lactee lane - A map of the sky seen in infrared. Data obtained from two 1.3m diameter telescopes located at Mount Hopkins in the United States and Cerro Tololo in Chile / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637926: Buttercup in art nouveau patterns for wallpapers and a vase, 1897 (lithograph), Grasset, Eugene (1841-1917) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4637927: The infrared lactee lane - A map of the whole sky seen in three different wavelengths of the infrared. Data obtained from two 1.3m diameter telescopes located at Mount Hopkins in the United States and Cerro Tololo in Chile. The lactee path appears as a long strip passing through the image. Below, the two galaxies close to the Big and Small Magellan Cloud. Nearly a hundred million stars appear in this image / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637931: Wild rose botanical study, 1897 (lithograph), Grasset, Eugene (1841-1917) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4637936: The galactic center seen by Spitzer Space Telescope - The galactic center region seen by Spitzer satellite. The area photographed extends over 890 light-years and over 640 light-years high. In visible light, this area is hidden by a large amount of interstellar dust. This picture in false colors shows the old and cold stars in blue, and the red regions the hot and massive stars. Dark and bright filamentous clouds are star-forming regions. The brightest area in the center of the image is the center of our galaxy which houses a supermassive black hole. This infrared image from Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope shows hundreds of thousands of stars crowded into the swirling core of our spiral Milky Way galaxy. In visible-light pictures, this region cannot be seen at all because dust lying between Earth and the galactic center blocks our view. In this false-color picture, old and cool stars are blue, while dust features lit up by blazing hot, massive stars are shown in a reddish hue. Both bright and dark filamentary clouds can be seen, many of which harbor stellar nurseries. The plane of the Milky Way's flat disk is apparent as the main, horizontal band of clouds. The brightest white spot in the middle is the very center of the galaxy, which also marks the site of a supermassive black hole. The region pictured here is immense, with a horizontal span of 890 light-years and a vertical span of 640 light-years. Earth is located 26,000 light-years away, out in one of the Milky Way's spiral arms. Though most of the objects seen in this image are located at the galactic center, the features above and below the galactic plane tend to lie closer to Earth. This image is a mosaic of thousands of short exposures taken by Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera. The entire region was imaged in less than 16 hours / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637940: The flower fees, that of the olive, sleeping in a cotton cap, the night beauty, the immortelle with a crown and a snake aureole, the myrtle in an old man, the tobacco smoking the cigar and the laurel in an old musketeer - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), following an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.J.J.Granville (3-1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - Flower fairies of tobacco, everlasting, olive, marvel of Peru, laurel and myrtle - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees””, 1847 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4637962: Map of the Lactee Way (this view is not a photograph) obtained by the European satellite Gaia. The satellite measured the position and luminosite of 1.7 billion stars. / Bridgeman Images