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PIX4613476: The Large Magellanic Cloud - The Large Magellanic Cloud - The Great Magellan Cloud galaxy is about 160,000 light years away from Earth in the southern constellation of Bream. Visible with the naked eye in the southern hemishere it is one of the closest galaxies to ours. The irregular galaxy Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is located at a distance of 160,000 light years in the southern constellation of Dorado. It is one of the nearest galaxy, visible to naked eye / Bridgeman Images
PIX4615615: March - Spirit - Panorama - Husband Hill - Panorama of 360 degres consists of 243 images obtained by Spirit from November 24 to December 2, 2004. The hill in the center left of the image is Husband Hill. The Rover Spirit landed on Mars in the Gusev crater area, July 4, 2004 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4615678: Hunter's butterfly, Pyrameis huntera 1, orange-tip butterfly, Pieris (Thestias) pyrene? 2, and grey pansy butterfly, Junonia atlites 3. Illustration drawn and engraved by Moses Harris. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's “” Illustrations of Exotic Entomology,”” Bohn, London, 1837. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4615689: March - Spirit - View during the descent of Husband Hill - Detail of the 360 degres panorama obtained by Spirit from 23 to 28 November 2005. The summit of Husband Hill is 100m above the surrounding plateau. The Rover Spirit landed on Mars in the Gusev crater area, July 4, 2004 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4615818: Mars: dunes in the crater Endurance - Mars: Endurance crater dunes - Image obtained by the rover Opportunity in August 2004. The Rover Opportunity landed on Mars in the Meridiani Planum region on January 25, 2004. This approximate true - color panoramic camera image highlights the reddish - colored dust present in Endurance crater floor. Sinuous tendrils of sand less than 1 meter (3.3 feet) high extend from the main dune field towards the rover. Image made by the martian rover Opportunity in August 2004 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4634768: An Egyptian leader accompanies a child servant who carries his curved sword. Below is a Mamluk warrior with a spear on his horse. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Afrique” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Egyptian chieftain in turban and robes with servant boy with curved sword, and a Mamluk warrior with spear on horseback. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4634931: View of the port of Algiers (Algeria), from the Mediterranean Sea. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Afrique” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. View of the port of Algiers, North Africa, from the Mediterranean, with several ships in the foreground and castle above the town. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635087: Costumes of the Baraabra people, Nubians of Sudan, and a man of Dongolan with a spear. Underneath, boys and girls Baraabra. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Afrique” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Costumes of the people of Baraabra, a Nubian people of Sudan, and a man of the town of Dongola with spear. Young Barabra boys in loinclothes and girls in skirts below. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635153: The village of Fulier in Senegal, with rows of huts in the center of a coral a betail. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Afrique” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Village of Fulier in Senegal, showing rows of huts in a central zone surrounded by a corral of cattle. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635209: Bodyguard of the Sheikh of Bornu (Chad, Nigeria). Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Afrique” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Mounted bodyguard to the Sheik of Bornu in chain-mail armour and turban carrying a spear. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635291: Guinee Conakry weapons, spears, clubs, bow and arrows in their quiver, shield. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Afrique”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840.Weapons of Guinea, Africa: lances, club, shield, quiver, bow and arrows. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635357: Native of Gona (Angola), a family with loons and below, a khoikhoi couple (South Africa) in fur coat. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Afrique” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Natives of Gona (Angola) above, man with bow and arrow, woman with beaded apron, child in loincloth, and Khoikhoi man in fur cape with spear and Khoikhoi woman in fur cape over beaded belts and apron. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635416: Nama couple (South Africa). Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Afrique” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Nama man of South Africa in fur cape, codpiece and hold spear, and Nama woman in robe with beaded belt, necklace and armbands. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635527: The interior of the Wakashan Indian habitat, scene of daily family life in front of a sculpted totem (Canada). Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. Interior of a Wakashan people hut, with men barbecuing fish, women resting on mats, and a totem pole, dried fish in the background. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4635695: South Hemisphere - This is a long exposure (about an hour) made with an ordinary camera and colour film. It shows a crowded and dusty stretch of the southern Milky Way. The Galactic plane runs roughly NE to SW across the middle of the picture, which is about 40 degrees across. At the centre-left lies the direction of the nucleus of our Galaxy, unseen behind dense clouds of dust: The Lactee Way in the Scorpion - Southern Milky Way / Bridgeman Images
FLO4633973: Persian costumes: a couple of courtiers and ordinary traditional costumes. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Asie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Costumes of high ranking Persian men and women at top, and commoners below. Physiognomy of a Persian man in turban. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4634139: Hurricanes Katia, Irma, and Jose seen by satellite 09/2017 - Hurricanes Katia, Irma, and Jose 09/2017: Hurricanes Katia, Irma, and Jose seen by the Suomi NPP satellite on September 8, 2017. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured the data for a mosaic of Katia, Irma, and Jose as they appeared in the early hours of September 8, 2017. The images were acquired by the VIIRS “” day-night band,””” which detects light signals in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared, and uses filtering techniques to observe signals such as city lights, auroras, wildfires, and reflected moonlight. In this case, the clouds were lit by the nearly full Moon. The image is a composite, showing cloud imagery combined with data on city lights / Bridgeman Images
PIX4634142: Evolution of the universe: from the dark age to galaxies - In this diagram, the upper left represents the cosmic Dark Age, when the universe was so hot that atoms could not form and photons could not travel freely. The red area represents the de-ionization era, when the universe became transparent. The Cosmic Background Radiation comes from this time, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images