TEC4624184: Palais de Chaillot in Paris in the 16th arrondissement, completed in 1937, architects Leon Azema (1888-1978), Louis Hippolyte Boileau (1878-1948), Jacques Carlu (1890-1976). The inscriptions are by Paul Valery (1871-1845) “It depends on the passing man whether I am fallen or treasor, whether I speak or remain silent. This is up to you, friend does not enter without desperation.”” / Bridgeman Images
PIX4624313: Pluto - Hubble's Full Photomap of Pluto - The dwarf planet Pluto seen by the Hubble space telescope. These images, recomposed by computer from cliches obtained in 2002 and 2003, are not sufficiently precise to show Pluto's surface in detail but reveal color differences. This is the most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, as constructed from multiple NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken from 2002 to 2003. Hubble's view isn't sharp enough to see craters or mountains, if they exist on the surface, but Hubble reveals a complex - looking and variegated world with white, dark - orange, and charcoal - black terrain. The overall color is believed to be a result of ultraviolet radiation from the distant Sun breaking up methane that is present on Pluto's surface, leaving behind a dark, molasse - colored, carbon - rich residue. The center disk (180 degrees) has a mysterious bright spot that is unusually rich in carbon monoxide frost. This region will be photographed in the highest possible detail when Nasa's New Horizons probe flies by Pluto in 2015. The Hubble images are a few pixels wide. But through a technique called dithering, multiple, slightly offset pictures can be combined through computer - image processing to synthesize a higher - resolution view than could be seen in a single exposure. This series of pictures took four years and 20 computers operating continuously and simultaneously to accomplish / Bridgeman Images
PIX4624318: New Pluto satellites seen by the Hubble Space Telescope - View of Pluto, its Charon satellite and two new satellites obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope on 15 February 2006; These satellites, S/2005 P 1 and S/2005 P 2, are approximately 64,000 and 48,000 km of Pluto. Since August 2006, Pluto is now called 134340 Pluto and is no longer considered a planet but designed as a dwarf planet. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4625221: Saturn rings seen by Cassini - Saturn's rings from Cassini - Image obtained by the Cassini probe on November 26, 2008 at a distance of 1.1 million km from the planet. This natural color view shows the system of rings of Saturn up to ring F. The system of rings is composed from closest to Saturn to outermost by ring D, then C, B, the division of Cassini, A with division of Encke, F, G and E. This natural color mosaic, taken from 10 degrees below the illuminated side of the rings, shows, from left to right, radially outward from Saturn, the C ring (with its Colombo and Maxwell gaps); the B ring and the Cassini division beyond, with the intervening Huygens gap; the A ring (with its Encke and Keeler gaps); and, on the far right, the narrow F ring. The total span covers approximately 65,700 kilometers (40,800 miles). Although it is too faint to be seen here, the D ring is located just to the left of the C ring. The mosaic was constructed from 45 narrow - angle - camera images - - 15 separate sets of red, green and blue images - - taken over the course of about four hours, as Cassini scanned across the rings. The images in this view were obtained by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 26, 2008, at a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometers (700,000 miles) from Saturn and at a sun - Saturn - spacecraft, or phase, angle of 28 degrees. Image scale in the radial (horizontal) direction is about 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) per pixel / Bridgeman Images
PIX4625257: Saturn seen by the Cassini probe - Saturn northern hemisphere seen by Cassini spacecraft: Saturn seen by the Cassini probe on 25 April 2016. Cassini scanned across the planet and its rings on April 25, 2016, capturing three sets of red, green and blue images to cover this entire scene showing the planet and the main rings. The images were obtained using Cassini's wide-angle camera at a distance of approximately 1.9 million miles (3 million kilometers) from Saturn and at an elevation of about 30 degrees above the ring plane. The view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from a Sun-saturn-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 55 degrees. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4625283: Saturn seen at equinox - Saturn during Equinox - Saturn seen by the Cassini probe on August 12, 2009, 1.25 days after the exact date of Saturn equinox. The images that make up this mosaic were obtained at a distance of 847,000 km from the planet. Several satellites are visible in this image: Janus (lower left), Epimethee (lower middle), Pandora (on the right of the image, outside the rings) and Atlas (on the right, inside the F ring). Seen from our planet, the view of Saturn's rings during equinox is extremely foreshortened and limited. But in orbit around Saturn, Cassini spacecraft had no such problems. From 20 degrees above the ring plane, Cassini's wide angle camera shot 75 exposures in succession for this mosaic showing Saturn, its rings, and a few of its moons a day and a half after exact Saturn equinox, when the sun's disk was exactly overhead at the planet's equator. The novel illumination geometry that accompanies equinox lowers the sun's angle to the ring plane, significantly darkens the rings, and causes out - of - plane structures to look anomalously bright and to cast shadows across the rings. These scenes are possible only during the few months before and after Saturn's equinox which occurs only once in about 15 Earth years. Also at equinox, the shadows of the planet's expansive rings are compressed into a single, narrow band cast onto the planet as seen in this mosaic. The images comprising the mosaic, taken over about eight hours, were extensively processed before being joined together. At this time so close to equinox, illumination of the rings by sunlight reflected off the planet vastly dominates any meager sunlight falling on the rings. Hence, the half of the rings on the left illuminated by planetshine is, before processing, much brighter than the half of the rings on the right. On the right, it is only the vertically extended parts of the rings that catch any substantial sunlight. With no enhancement, the rings woul / Bridgeman Images
PIX4625340: Titan, Saturn satellite seen by Cassini - Saturn's moon Titan as seen by Cassini spacecraft: Visible and infrared composite image of Titan taken by the Cassini probe on August 21, 2014. View of methane and ethane lakes lit by the Sun. - This near-infrared, color mosaic from Nasa's Cassini spacecraft shows the sun glinting off of Titan's north polar seas. - The sunglint, also called a specular reflection, is the bright area near the 11 o'clock position at upper left. This mirror-like reflection, known as the specular point, is in the south of Titan's largest sea, Kraken Mare, just north of an island archipelago separating two separate parts of the sea - This particular sunglint was so bright as to saturate the detector of Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) instrument, which captures the view. - The southern portion of Kraken Mare (the area surrounding the specular feature toward upper left) displays a “” bathtub ring”” - a bright margin of evaporate deposits - which indicates that the sea was larger at some point in the past and has become smaller due to evaporation. The deposits are material left behind after the methane & ethane liquid evaporates, somewhat akin to the saline crust on a salt flat / Bridgeman Images
JSN4625389: The site of the Musee des Monuments Francais, Cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadero, Paris 16th. All the renovation and renovation works were entrusted to the architect Jean Francois Bodin, at the end of 2007. Photography 2003., Salmon, Jacqueline / Bridgeman Images
JSN4625395: The site of the Musee des Monuments Francais, Cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadero, Paris 16th. All the renovation and renovation works were entrusted to the architect Jean Francois Bodin, the end of the 2007 works. Photography 2003., Salmon, Jacqueline / Bridgeman Images
PIX4625230: Tempete sur Saturn seen by the Cassini probe - Huge Storm on Saturn seen by Cassini spacecraft - Evolution of a huge tempete on Saturn seen by the Cassini probe from December 5, 2010 to August 12, 2011. This series of images from Nasa's Cassini spacecraft shows the development of the largest storm seen on the planet since 1990. These true - color and composite near - true - color views chronicle the storm from its start in late 2010 through mid - 2011, showing how the distinct head of the storm quickly grew large but eventually became engulfed by the storm's tail. The earliest image of the storm, taken Dec. 5, 2010, is in the top left of the panel. The storm appears only as a small, white cloud on the terminator between the day side and night side of the planet. The next view, in the top middle of the panel and taken Jan. 2, 2011, shows that the head quickly grew much larger and a tail began to trail a great distance eastward. Some of the clouds moved south and got caught up in a current that flows to the east (to the right) relative to the storm head. In the top right of the panel, this tail, which appears as slightly blue clouds south and now west (left) of the storm head, can be seen encountering the storm in the Feb. 25 image.The April 22 image, in the bottom left of the panel, is one of Cassini's last views of the storm when it still had a recognizable head. In this view, the tail is south of the head and is well established by this time.The May 18 view, in the bottom middle, shows only the storm's tail. The head still existed at this time, but it is beyond the horizon and out of the field of view here.Between the time of the May 18 image and the next image shown here (from Aug. 12), the head of the storm was engulfed by the part of the storm's tail that spread eastward at the same latitude as the head. The Aug. 12 image, in the bottom right, shows that the head has lost its distinct identity and is now just part of the jumble of the storm. Also visible in these / Bridgeman Images
JSN4625244: The site of the Musee des Monuments Francais, Cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadero, Paris 16th. All the renovation and renovation works were entrusted to the architect Jean Francois Bodin, at the end of 2007. Photography 2003., Salmon, Jacqueline / Bridgeman Images
JSN4625260: The site of the Musee des Monuments Francais, Cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadero, Paris 16th. All the renovation and renovation works were entrusted to the architect Jean Francois Bodin, at the end of 2007. Photography 2003., Salmon, Jacqueline / Bridgeman Images
JSN4625434: The site of the Musee des Monuments Francais, Cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadero, Paris 16th. All the renovation and renovation works were entrusted to the architect Jean Francois Bodin, at the end of 2007. Photography 2003., Salmon, Jacqueline / Bridgeman Images
PIX4624757: Star sky and Saturn - Starry sky and Saturn - Star sky with the constellation of Cancer and its cluster of stars M44 on the right, and part of the constellation of the Lion to the left with the planet Saturn near the star Regulus. April 3, 2008. Starry sky with Cancer constellation with the star cluster M44 at right, and part of Leo constellation towards left with planet Saturn near the star Regulus. April 3 2008 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4656986: Paranal Observatory, Chile 03/2008 - Paranal Observatory, Chile 03/2008 - The Paranal Observatory at dusk. March 2008. Paranal Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on the top of Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert in the northern part of Chile. March 2008 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4657027: Observatory of Paranal, Chile 03/2008 - Paranal Observatory, Chile 03/2008 - domes of 8.2m Kueyen and Melipal telescopes; in the background, the VST. March 2008. Paranal Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on the top of Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert in the northern part of Chile. This picture shows Kueyen and Melipal, two of the four 8,2m telescopes, with in the background, the VST. March 2008 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4657068: Paranal Observatory - Fin croissant de Lune - Paranal observatory, Chile, crescent moon - 05 - 2008 - La Lune en fin croissant, 4 May 2008, sur une une des telescopes auxilliaire 1,8m in diameter. Paranal Observatory, Chile. Crescent Moon with one VLTI auxiliary telescope. May 4 2008 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4657094: Paranal Observatory - Fin croissant de Lune - Paranal observatory, Chile, crescent moon - 05 - 2008 - La Lune en fin croissant, 4 May 2008, sur une une des telescopes auxilliaire 1,8m in diameter. Paranal Observatory, Chile. Crescent Moon with one VLTI auxiliary telescope. May 4 2008 / Bridgeman Images
JSN4657101: Villa Noailles in Hyeres (Var). Architect Rob Mallet Stevens (1886-1945), construction 1931-1933. A couple of young wealthy aristocrats receive as a wedding gift a property located in Hyeres. After consulting Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, he entrusted Mallet Stevens with the construction of a villa that represented his first complete order for the architect. Photography 15/09/03., Mallet-Stevens, Robert (1886-1945) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4657128: Paranal Observatory, Chile 03/2008 - Paranal Observatory, Chile 03/2008 - Panorama of the Paranal Observatory at dusk. The Very Large Telescope (VLT) and auxiliary telescopes. March 2008. Paranal Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on the top of Cerro Paranal in the Atacama desert in the northern part of Chile. March 2008 / Bridgeman Images
OMG4657195: Villa Noailles in Hyeres (Var). Architect Rob Mallet Stevens (1886-1945), construction 1931-1933. A couple of young wealthy aristocrats receive as a wedding gift a property located in Hyeres. After consulting Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, he entrusted Mallet Stevens with the construction of a villa that represented his first complete order for the architect., Mallet-Stevens, Robert (1886-1945) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4657215: Star sky on the Paranal observatory - Starry Sky above Paranal observatory - Spherical panorama of the star sky above the Paranal observatory in Chile. The lactee route crosses the sky accompanied by zodiacal light. May 2009. Milky Way is crossing Paranal sky and meeting with Zodiacal light to the West behind Paranal Observatory. Three of the most emblematic constellations are visible on the horizon: Orion, Big deeper and Scorpius. The Large and Small magellanic clouds are visible to the South together with Southern Cross, Eta Carina nebula and Coal sack. May 2009 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4656968: Very Large Telescope (VLT) - Paranal observatory. Very Large Telescope (VLT). - The Cerro Paranal Observatory in Chile has been hosting the European VLT (Very Large Telescope) network since 1998. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) here uses four telescopes measuring 8.2 m in diameter, as well as telescopes measuring 1.8 m to 4 m in diameter: it is the largest observatory in the world. Cerro Paranal is located at 2500 m above sea level, in the Atacama desert. This european observatory accomodates the Very Large Telescope (VLT) since 1998. Four 8.2m telescopes are used besides several other telescopes from 1.8m to 4m. Cerro Paranal is 2500 meters in altitude in Atacama desert / Bridgeman Images