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PIX4651722: Arecibo Message - The Arecibo Message is a radio message that was sent to space on November 16, 1974 towards the M13 globular cluster, 25 000 years - light from Earth. When this binary message is divided into 73 groups of 23 characters it forms this drawing which includes numbers from one to ten, atomic numbers of the hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorus, the structure of DNA, a 1.76m man, the population of Earth, our solar system, and a representation of the Arecibo radiotelescope. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4651871: Le sarigue ou opossum et le cayopollin - Eau forte by Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845), engraved by Carnonkel, for the dictionary of natural sciences: mammals by Frederic Cuvier, edited by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), published by F.G.Levrault, a Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4651882: Le dasyure de Mauge ou chat marsupial and le chironecte yapock ou sarigue d'eau ou opossum aquatic - Eau forte by Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845), graved by Carnonkel, for the dictionary of natural sciences: mammals by Frederic Cuvier, edited by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), published by F.G.Levrault, a Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4651897: The badger or tesson or taisson and the civet or cat musque - Eau forte by Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845), engraved by Carnonkel, for the dictionary of natural sciences: mammals by Frederic Cuvier, edited by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), published by F.G.Levrault, in Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4651959: Cheiropteres (chiroptere): the amplexicaude or flying fox and the cephalote of Peron or bat with a big head - Eau forte by Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845), engraved by Carnonkel, for the dictionary of natural sciences: mammals by Frederic Cuvier, edited by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1780-1845) 5-1840), published by F.G.Levrault, a Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652062: Cheiroptere (chiroptere): glossophage without tail and glossophage caudataire - Eau forte by Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845), engraved by Carnonkel, for the dictionary of natural sciences: mammals by Frederic Cuvier, edited by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), published by F.G.Levrault, a Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4650554: LHC: Peter Higgs visits the ATLAS experiment - LHC: Peter Higgs visits the ATLAS experiment - Peter Higgs visits the LHC instrument that could discover the Higgs boson. 4 April 2008. Peter Higgs visits the ATLAS experiment, which may find the elusive Higgs boson. April 4 2008 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4650585: Long-toed spinous or spiny rat, Amazon bamboo rat, Dactylomys dactylinus, (Echimys dactylinus? Geoff.) From a specimen in Berlin Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1843. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4650758: New Zealand fantail, Rhipidura fuliginosa (White-shafted fan-tail, Rhipidura flabellifera). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4650821: Brown-throated watt-eye, Platysteira cyanea (Show tody, Platystera lobata). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4650840: African blue-flycatcher, Elminia longicauda (Caerulean or long-tailed flycatcher, Myiagra longicauda). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4650855: Robin flycatcher, Muscicapa rubecola. Known only from a specimen in the Paris Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4650880: Lowland peltops, Peltops blainvillii (Fork-tailed gaper, Eurylaimus blainvilli). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4650901: Woodland kingfisher, Halcyon senegalensis (Rufous-vented kingfisher, Halcyon rufiventer). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4650930: August 24, 2016: The three stars that make up the Centaur Alpha system are the closest stars to the Sun. Proxima du Centaur is located at a distance of 4.22 light years from the Sun but is invisible to the naked eye. Alpha Centauri A and B are a little further away, 4.36 light years from the Sun. These two stars are relatively similar to the Sun. Although Proxima of Centauri is distant from the Alpha couple of Centauri, its movement seems to link it to this system and is sometimes called Alpha Centauri C - This image of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri AB also shows the much fainter red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The picture was created from pictures forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The blue halo around Alpha Centauri AB is an artifact of the photographic process, the star is really pale yellow in colour like the Sun / Bridgeman Images
FLO4650948: Northern carmine bee-eater, Merops nubicus (Blue-headed bee-eater, Merops caeruleocephalus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4651011: Temminck's courser, Cursorius temminckii (Senegal courier, Tachydromus senegalensis). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images