ITR4652176: Park and castle of Sceaux (Hauts de Seine). In 1858 the architect J.M.Le Soufrache rebuilt a Louis XIII brick and stone mansion for the daughter of Jean Francois Lecomte, negociating at Saint Malo, who had rebuilt the estate in 1798. The park and its gardens were designed by Andre Le Notre in 1673 for Colbert. It was enlarged by the Marquis de Seignelay, the son of Colbert, who in particular had the Grand Canal excavated. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4677872: Sea Elephant - Southern Elephant Seal - During the breeding period, sea elephants (Mirounga leonina) fight blood. Peninsule de Valdes, Argentina. Male elephant seals (bulls) (Mirounga leonina) fight for their territory and harems of females. Valdes peninsula, Argentina / Bridgeman Images
PIX4677896: Sea Elephant - Southern Elephant Seal - During the breeding period, sea elephants (Mirounga leonina) fight blood. Peninsule de Valdes, Argentina. Male elephant seals (bulls) (Mirounga leonina) fight for their territory and harems of females. Valdes peninsula, Argentina / Bridgeman Images
PIX4678284: Pepoaza eye - de - feu - fire - eyed Diucon - Pepoaza eye - de - feu (Xolmis pyrope) is a small species of bird in the Tyrannid family. Chile - Patagonia - Torres del Paine. The Fire - eyed Diucon (Xolmis pyrope) is a passerine bird of South America belonging to the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile / Bridgeman Images
PIX4622599: Nebula IC 2948 in Centaurus - Nebula IC 2948 and IC 2944 in Centaurus - Nebula IC 2948 is a vast nebula located about 6000 years from Earth in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is associated with the cluster of stars IC 2944 near which Bok's blood cells are visible. 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. Image obtained through 3 different filters that highlight oxygen (blue), hydrogen (green), and sulfur (red). Between the Southern Cross and the rich Carina region, on the southern border of Centaurus, is a large, almost featureless emission nebula, IC 2948, with a sprinkling of bright stars, Collinder 249. It is against this uniform, backdrop that we see a brighter region (IC 2944) which hosts small group of dark clouds of the kind known as 'Bok globules'. They are named for the Dutch - American astronomer who first drew attention to them as the possible sites of star formation. There are young stars scattered through the nebula and these stars are responsible for its existence. The stars only 10 million years old and the hydrogen they illuminate seems to be unusually thinly spread and very uniform, so the nebula is both faint and extensive. It is also quite distant, about 6000 light years and is only two degrees from the Galactic plane, so there are many foreground stars. This image is in the classic “” Hubble palette”” where SII is assigned to red, H - alpha to green, and OIII to blue. RGB frames were taken for star colors / Bridgeman Images
PIX4622607: Nebulae IC 2948 and 2944 in Centaur - A large southern emission nebula, IC 2948 - Nebula IC 2948 is a vast nebula located about 6000 years from Earth in the southern constellation of Centaur. It is associated with the cluster of stars IC 2944 near which Bok's blood cells are visible. 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. Between the Southern Cross and the rich Carina region, on the southern border of Centaurus, is a large, almost featureless emission nebula, IC 2948, with a sprinkling of bright stars, Collinder 249. It is against this uniform, backdrop that we see a brighter region (IC 2944) which hosts small group of dark clouds of the kind known as 'Bok globules'. They are named for the Dutch - American astronomer who first drew attention to them as the possible sites of star formation. There are young stars scattered through the nebula and these stars are responsible for its existence. The stars only 10 million years old and the hydrogen they illuminate seems to be unusually thinly spread and very uniform, so the nebula is both faint and extensive. It is also quite distant, about 6000 light years and is only two degrees from the Galactic plane, so there are many foreground stars / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622622: Gargouille de l'Hotel de Cluny (1548-1560), Musee national du Moyen Age, Paris 5th. One of the most beautiful monuments of medieval civil architecture in Paris elevated to the iniative of the Abbes of Cluny by Jacques d'Amboise, brother of the cardinal minister. Restores after the ransacking of the Revolution, it now houses collections of sculptures and art objects from the Middle Ages. Repabtise since 1991, National Museum of the Middle Ages Thermes of Cluny. / Bridgeman Images