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TEC4571441: Palais du Hanover, Paris 2nd arrondissement. Construction 1932, architects Victor Laloux (1850-1937) and Charles Lemaresquier (1873-1972). Former Berlitz Palace in Art Deco style, this building was completely restructured in 1996 and acquired by Unibail to make it an office complex. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4571607: Summer Triangle - Summer Triangle - The Summer Triangle is an asterism formed by the brilliant stars Deneb (at the top of the picture, in the Swan), Vega (on the right in the Lyre) and Altair (on the left, in the Eagle). Summer Triangle is an asterism made of three bright stars: Deneb (top in Cygnus, Vega (right in Lyra) and Altair (left in Aquila) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4571657: Star Sky in Winter - Starry Sky in Winter - A woman in the Lofoten Mountains in Norway. In the sky, the winter hexagon, an asterism formed by the stars Sirius (masked by the mountain), Procyon, Pollux, Capella, Aldebaran and Rigel. A female hiker is seen on the top of a mountain in Lofoten, Norway, under the Winter Hexagon, an asterism formed by Sirius (hidden by the mountain), Procyon, Pollux, Capella, Aldebaran and Rigel / Bridgeman Images
PIX4571623: Constellation of the Great Bear - Constellation of Ursa Major: Plate extracted from the Mirror of Urania -1824. Ursa Major, the constellation of the Great Bear, from Urania's Mirror, a colourful set of constellation cards published in 1824. Over the years, the star at the end of the tail has been known by two popular names, Alkaid and Benetnasch but Alkaid is now the official name / Bridgeman Images
PIX4572490: The smallest stars - Artist's view - The smallest stars. Artwork - Comparison to the scale of the smallest stars with Jupiter and the Sun. From left to right: Jupiter, a brown dwarf (same size as Jupiter but 50 times more massive), dwarf L (younger brown dwarf), red dwarf, Sun. From left to right: Jupiter (a failed star), a brown dwarf (same size as Jupiter but 50 times more massive), a “” L”” dwarf (brown dwarf younger), a red dwarf and the sun for comparison / Bridgeman Images
PIX4572527: Brown dwarf with asteroid ring - Artist's view of a brown dwarf star surrounded by an asteroid belt. In the foreground, a primitive exoplanet illuminated by the star. This brown dwarf is host to a disk composed primarily of asteroids and boulders. The light from this dwarf is barely enough to illuminate the surface of this primitive planet. At a distance of about 1.5 million miles, the orbit of this planet is aligned to the plane of the rings with the result that they appear as a fuzzy line occulting the glowing face of this brown dwarf / Bridgeman Images
PIX4572539: Brown dwarf with a large debris ring - Artist's view of a brown dwarf star surrounded by a disc of dust and rocks. In the foreground, a primitive exoplanet illuminated by the star. This imaginary high - mass brown dwarf has a larger disk than the previous renderings. The perspective is from the equator of an airless planet, orbiting the brown dwarf at a distance of about 4 million miles. This planet's orbit is very nearly aligned to the plane of the rings, hence the debris appears as a sword - like straight line / Bridgeman Images
PIX4572591: Nova de l'Eagle - Nova Aquilae. Artwork - Artist's view of a nova, a white dwarf star that attracts the material of a companion star at the end of life, a red giant, and compresses these gases and then unleash a nuclear fusion reaction releasing a huge amount of energy in the form of a brief, extremely bright light. Here the artist showed the binary system just before the explosion of the nova. The artist's illustration depicts a classical nova binary system just before an explosion on the surface of the white dwarf. Classical novas occur in a system where a white dwarf closely orbits a normal, companion star. In this illustration, gas is flowing from the large red, companion star into a disk and then onto the white dwarf that is hidden inside the white area. As the gas flows ever closer to the white dwarf, it gets increasingly hotter, as indicated by the change in colors from yellow to white. When the explosion occurs, it engulfs the disk of gas and the red companion star / Bridgeman Images