CUB4516844: Snow on straws, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4516872: Ice and stalks, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4516878: Snow on winter cherry, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4516902: Snow on aucuba, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4516917: Snow on winter cherry, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4516931: Snow on pineto, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4516950: Frost on hazel amentum, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4516980: Snow on dry shrubs, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4517004: Snow on little house and beeches, Valsassina, Lombardy, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4517036: Spluga passage, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4517061: Drops on eschscholtzia, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4517071: Drops on sword-lily, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4517107: Hypogymnia physodes lichen on trunk, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4517114: Madesimo, Lombardy, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4517132: Juniper, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4517180: Red elder, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4517204: Snow and farmstead, Piani di Nava, Lombardy, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4517245: Snow and farmsteads, Piani di Nava, Lombardy, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4517255: Gentiana ciliata, Italy / Bridgeman Images

PIX4573767: Artist's view of organisms living on the surface of a gas planet satellite / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4573783: Louis vi le gros supervising the construction of a building. Miniature in 'Grandes chroniques de france', 15th century (miniature), Fouquet, Jean (c.1420-80) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4573875: Portrait of Charles IX child, 16th century (illustration), French School, (16th century) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4573894: Art Gauls: Torque a tampon, 2nd iron age, 450 BC (object), Iron Age / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4611681: View of Paris, taken from the Quai de la Rapee in 1716 Detail of the boats on the Seine, 1716 (oil on canvas), Martin, Pierre-Denis (1663-1742) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4611800: Bapteme du dauphin louis son de louis XIV (March 24, 1668), 1715 (oil on canvas), Christophe, Joseph (1662-1748) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4574031: Egyptian antiquite: private and commemorative stele from the necropolis of Abydos near Thebes, Middle empire, Cairo, Egyptian Museum (stone), Egyptian, Middle Kingdom (2040-1640 BC) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4611931: Altarpiece of Pentecote: antependium, detail. From Stavelot, c.1160-1170 (wood, copper and enamel), French School, (12th century) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4611946: Spiral Galaxy M94 in Hunting Dogs - Spiral galaxy M94 (NGC 4736) in Canes Venatici - The spiral galaxy M94 (NGC 4736) is located about 15 million years ago - light from Earth. The M94 spiral galaxy was classified as Sab because of the extreme luminosite of its central region. This galaxy has several ring zones of star formation, one of which is very active. Image obtained with a 50 cm telescope, composite of several poses. M94 is a spiral galaxy located 15 million light - year away. Several active regions of star formation have been identified there / Bridgeman Images

CUB4518200: Pyracantha, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4518212: Agapanthus campanulatus, Italy / Bridgeman Images

LRI4612133: The Jester Barbarroja (oil on canvas, 1635), Velazquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y (1599-1660) / Bridgeman Images

CUB4518353: Cenraurea montana, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4518370: Cenraurea montana, Italy / Bridgeman Images

PIX4612203: Galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) in visible and infrared - Galaxy Centaurus A in visible and infrared - The galaxy NGC 5128 is about 13 million years away - light from Earth. This an elliptical galaxy that cannibalized a small spiral galaxy. The infrared image, on the right, reveals the complex structure of the central dust strip. Images obtained on the left by Cerro Tololo's 4m telescope and on the right by the Spitzer space telescope. Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is the nearest active galaxy to Earth. Located 13 million light - years away in the southern constellation Centaurus, 'Cen A' appears to be the result of a merger - collision between a large elliptical galaxy (which has a black hole at its center) and a smaller spiral galaxy that veered too close to the larger one, resulting in the cannabalization of the small galaxy. The visible image (left) from the National Science Foundation's Blanco 4 - meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter - American Observatory in Chile is dominated by a bright halo of light caused by the stars in the galaxy. Many of these stars are hidden by the dense band of dust that blocks our view of their light. Infrared light is not so readily obscured by dust as visible light, so the infrared image (right) from instruments on the NASA - JPL Spitzer Space Telescope reveals the complex structure of the dust lane, and the stars and gas embedded within it / Bridgeman Images

PIX4612265: Centaurus A elliptical galaxy (NGC 5128) in Centaurus - Elliptical galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) - The galaxy NGC 5128 is located about 13 million years away from Earth in the southern constellation of Centaurus. A broad dark band crosses it in the middle, a probable vestige of a collision with a spiral galaxy. This giant galaxy is a powerful radio source known as Centaurus A. NGC 5128 is the nearest large elliptical galaxies to our sun located at about 13 million light years. It is also the nearest of the giant radio galaxies, possessing an active galactic nucleus (AGN) and optically one of the most luminous galaxies in the sky / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4612341: Virgin and Child with Three Angels, 1509 (oil on canvas), Massys or Matsys, Quentin (c.1466-1530) / Bridgeman Images