LRI4622212: The Circumcision, detail (Painting, 1635-1640), Reni, Guido (1575-1642) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622227: Nebula IC 1396A in Cephee - 200 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622272: Nebula IC 1396 in Cephee infrared view - 18/12/2003 The large composite image on the left is a product of combining data from the observator's multiband imaging photometer and the infrared array camera. The thermal emission at 24 microns measured by the photometer (red) is combined with near - infrared emission from the camera at 3.6/4.5 microns (blue) and from 5.8/8.0 microns (green). The colors of the diffuse emission and filaments vary, and are a combination of molecular hydrogen (which tends to be green) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (brown) emissions. Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope image of a glowing stellar nursery provides a spectacular contrast to the opaque cloud seen in visible light. The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is an elongated dark globule within the emission nebula IC 1396 in the constellation of Cepheus. Located at a distance of 2,450 light - years, the globule is a condensation of dense gas that is barely surviving the strong ionizing radiation from a nearby massive star. The globule is being compressed by the surrounding ionized gas. The dark globule is seen in silhouette at visible - light wavelengths, backlit by the illumination of a bright star located to the left of the field of view. The Spitzer Space Telescope pierces through the obscuration to reveal the birth of new protostars, or embryonic stars, and previously unseen young stars. The infrared image, was obtained by Spitzer's infrared array camera. The filamentary appearance of the globule results from the sculpting effects of competing physical processes. The winds from a massive star, located to the left of the image, produce a dense circular rim comprising the 'head' of the globule and a swept - back tail of gas / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622308: L'alsace Heureé: La lecon de Francais dans la village de Chatenois (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622347: L'alsace Heureé: Le pont du Rhine à Brisach (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622367: L'alsace Heureé: La ronde enfantine à Guemar (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622414: Marche de la rue Mouffetard in Paris. / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622422: The story of Alsace tells the children: Cesar et ses legions (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622449: Detail in nebula IC 1848 in Cassiopee - Detail in nebula IC 1848 in Cassiope / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622464: Urban signage between Boulevard Saint Michel and Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris 5e. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4622483: Jesus in the house of Martha and Mary of Bethany, 1620 (painting), Steenwyk, Hendrik van (the Younger) (c.1580-1649) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4564674: Representation of the actor Arashi Toyozo c.1794 (print), Sharaku, Toshusai (fl.1794-95) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4564705: Representation of actor Nakamura Shikan IV. Japanese print of the 19th century (print), Japanese School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4564731: Globular cluster M10 in Ophiuchus - Globular Cluster M10 - M10 (NGC 6254) is a globular cluster of magnitude 7 located about 15,000 years - light from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. Image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). M10, or NGC 6254, is a seventh magnitude globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus, close to M12. About 15000 light - years away and about 70 light - years across, M10 on the sky has about half the diameter of the full moon. This image is made up of observations made in visible and infrared light using Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys / Bridgeman Images

PIX4564747: Globular clusters M9 and NGC 6356 in Ophiuchus - Globular clusters M9 and NGC 6356 in Ophiuchus - Globular clusters M9 (NGC 6333, right) and NGC 6356 (top). M9 is one of the closest globular clusters to the center of our galaxy. NGC 6356 is twice as far away from us, about 50,000 years of light from Earth. Globular clusters M9 (NGC 6333), on the right and NGC 6356, on the top. M9 is one of the nearer globular clusters to the center of our Galaxy. NGC 6356 is two times distant from us, at about 50,000 light years / Bridgeman Images

PIX4564771: Globular cluster M92 in Hercules - Globular cluster M92 in Hercules - M92 is a cluster of stars located about 28,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation Hercules. M92 is a globular cluster at a distance of about 28,000 light - years away from Earth in the Hercules constellation / Bridgeman Images

PIX4564838: Globular cluster M14 in Ophiuchus - Globular cluster M14 in the constellation Ophiuchus - The globular cluster M14 is located in the constellation Ophiuchus at a distance of about 29,000 years - light; it extends over 72 years - light. M14 is a somewhat looser globular cluster than many, with a very small ellipticity (deviation from being exactly circular on the sky). Appearing in the constellation Ophiuchus, it is about 29000 light - years away and about 72 light - years across / Bridgeman Images

LRI4564887: Portrait of Sergei Rachmaninov (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4565011: Globular cluster M54 in Sagittarius - Globular cluster M54 in Sagittarius - The globular cluster M54 photographed by the Hubble space telescope (HST). M54 resides about 90,000 light years from Earth, in the dwarf galaxy of Sagittarius. The object shown in this beautiful Hubble image, dubbed Messier 54, could be just another globular cluster, but this dense and faint group of stars was in fact the first globular cluster found that is outside our galaxy. Discovered by the famous astronomer Charles Messier in 1778, Messier 54 belongs to a satellite of the Milky Way called the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy. Messier had no idea of the significance of his discovery at the time, and it wasn't until over two centuries later, in 1994, that astronomers found Messier 54 to be part of the miniature galaxy and not our own. Current estimates indicate that the Sagittarius dwarf, and hence the cluster, is situated almost 90 000 light - years away - - more than three times as far from the centre of our galaxy than the Solar System. Ironically, even though this globular cluster is now understood to lie outside the Milky Way, it will actually become part of it in the future. The strong gravitational pull of our galaxy is slowly engulfing the Sagittarius dwarf, which will eventually merge with the Milky Way creating one much larger galaxy. This picture is a composite created by combining images taken with the Wide Field Channel of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Light that passed through a yellow - orange (F606W) was colored blue and light passing through a near - infrared filter (F814W) was colored red. The total exposure times were 3460 s and 3560 s, respectively and the field of view is approximately 3.4 by 3.4 arcminutes / Bridgeman Images

PIX4592089: Night end - Starry sky and observer - Constellations of the Great Bear, Lion and Cancer 26 September 2006, Monts d'Arree (Finistere - France). In overprint, the mythological forms of these constellations, extracted from the Uranographia of Hevelius. Big Dipper, Leo, Cancer constellations. Mythological Constellations forms from “” Uranographia”” star atlas by Hevelius (1690) have been added. September 26 2006, Monts d'Arree (Finistere - France) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4592104: Constellation Leo - Leo constellation - The constellation of the Lion above the Chapel of Mount Saint - Michel of Braspart, Brittany. April 2008, Mont Saint - Michel de Braspart, Brittany, France) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4592153: Horsemen and couplers on the avenue du bois in Paris Au fond l'arc de Triomphe, 20th century (oil on canvas), Stein, Georges (1818-90) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4592224: Lynx Constellation - Constellation of Lynx - Mirror of Urania by Jehoshaphat Aspin 1825 Recolorated by us Urania's Mirror, by Jehoshaphat Aspin, 1825. Recolored / Bridgeman Images

PIX4592270: Lyra Constellation - Constellation of Lyra - Lyra Constellation extracted from Hevelius Uranographia. Recolorised image. Map showing the constellation of Lyra with its mythological form from “” Uranographia”” star atlas by Hevelius (1690). Recolored Image / Bridgeman Images

TEC4592321: Vedado district in Havana, Cuba. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4592391: Centro Habana district in Havana, Cuba. / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622493: The story of Alsace tells the children: Construction of a cathedrale (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622497: Nebula IC 2220 in the Carene - A mass - loss star in IC 2220 - This nebula is illuminated by a giant red star, the star HD 65670. Image obtained by Siding Spring's 3.9m telescope. The bright, supergiant star at the centre of this nebula is known only by its catalog designation, HD 65750. The nebulosity around the star is the result of light reflected by dust surrounding it. The dust is thought to consist mainly of particles of silica condensed from material which the star is losing from its distended surface at a fairly steady rate. The rate of mass loss is much higher than in normal stars and is sufficient to produce the reflection nebula IC 2220. The stellar nature of the central object is revealed by the four diffraction spikes extending from it. These are artifacts due to structures within the telescope. The light from the star has also produced the annular halation ring (a photographic artefact) that ornaments the nebula. These features, real or otherwise, have provoked the name 'Toby Jug' for this nebula, after the ornamental English drinking vessel or beer mug / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622513: Eglise Notre Dame du Val de Grace (1624-1669) in Paris. The church is the fruit of the wish of Queen Anne of Austria to raise a beautiful temple to God if he sent her a son. After twenty-three years of marriage, in 1638, the future Louis XIV was born, who laid the first stone on 1 April 1645 and the construction ended at the end of the 1660s with sculptural and pictorial decoration. The works were first entrusted to Mansart, to which Le Mercier was succeeded, having worked notably at the Hotel de St Aignan and the Bibliotheque of Mazarin, and then Le Muet, who attended Le Duc. In 1649, the disturbances of the Fronde led to a long interruption of work, which did not resume until 1655. Photography 10/08/98. / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622521: The story of Alsace tells the children: Louis XIV in Alsace (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622532: Nebula IC 2948 in Centaur - Bok's cells - A group of Bok globules in IC 2948 - View of a detail of nebula IC 2948 in the center Centaur on Bok's cells. A Bok's blood cell is a dark interstellar cloud of gases and dust that absorb light. If it condenses enough, it gives birth to new stars. The dark spots in the picture are not photographic defects but an unusual type of interstellar cloud known as a Bok globule. Bok globules, named after astronomer Bart Bok who studied them extensively, are small dark clouds made of gas and dust that are typically condensing to form a star or stars. These Bok globules are located at a distance of about 6000 light years near IC 2944 cluster in the emission nebula IC 2948 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622553: Nebulae IC 2948 and 2944 in Centaur / Bridgeman Images

LRI4622598: Lucien Germain Guitry and Jeanne Granier, 1895 (oil on paper), Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622601: Nebula IC 4601 in Scorpio - IC 4601 nebula in Scorpius - IC 4601 is a reflexion nebula located in the constellation Scorpio. Reflection nebula in Scorpius / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622610: Boulevard Saint Michel in Paris. / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622621: The story of Alsace tells the children: War of Revolution (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images