PIX4651625: Arecibo Radiotelescope - Puerto Rico - The largest radio telescope in the world, 305m diameter antenna. 03 - 200 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4651637: Arecibo Radiotelescope - Puerto Rico - The largest radio telescope in the world, 305m diameter antenna. 03 - 200 / Bridgeman Images

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

PIX4651780: Boyden Observatory - South Africa - Boyden observatory - South Africa - Rainbow above the cupola of the 1.5 metre telescope. Bloemfontein, South Africa. Rainbow and the 1.5 m telescope dome. Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651782: L'agouti et la paca - 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

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

PIX4651973: CERGA Observatory: Laser - Moon & Laser - Satellite - CERGA Observatory: Laser - Moon & Laser - Satellite - 21/01/0 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4651974: CERGA Observatory: Laser - Moon & Laser - Satellite - CERGA Observatory: Laser - Moon & Laser - Satellite - 21/01/0 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4651986: The Lunar Laser Ranging and Satellite Laser Ranging stations: CERGA Observatory: Laser-Lune & laser-satellite - Calern observatory (CERGA) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652004: CERGA Observatory - Laser dome - moon - CERGA Observatory - Laser dome - moon - 21/01/0 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652020: CERGA Observatory - Laser shooting - moon - CERGA Observatory - Laser shooting - moon - Astronomer Francois Mignard during laser shooting - moon of 21/01/200 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652052: The Lunar Laser Ranging station: Calern Observatory (CERGA): cupola of the laser-moon - Calern observatory (CERGA) / 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

FLO4652066: Pennant's parakeet, Psittacus pennantii. Platycercus elegans. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650512: Wolverine, Gulo gulo (Ferruginous glutton, Eira ferruginea, Gulo castaneus). From a specimen in Bullock's Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1843. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650538: Northern ghost bat or white box-tailed bat, Diclidurus albus, and spectral bat or false vampire bat, Vampyrus spectrum. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1843. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4650542: The LHC tunnel. 07/2008 - Views of the LHC machine in tunnel at point 6 - View of the LHC tunnel at point 6. 25 July 2008. July 25, 2008 / 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

FLO4650596: Capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris (Hydrochaerus cabiai). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1843. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650605: Brazilian rabbit, Sylvilagus brasiliensis (Lepus tapeti). From specimens 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

FLO4650611: Echidna or spiny anteater, Tachyglossus aculeatus (Echidna setosa). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1843. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650652: Yellow throated marten, Martes flavigula (Galidictis chrysogastes). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from a sketch by R. G. Watkin from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1843. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4650663: DNA and printed circuits - Illustration - Digital DNA - Illustration - Conceptual illustration / 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