TEC4645495: The Basilica of the Sacre Coeur in Paris 75018. Architect Paul Abadie (1812-1884), 1877-1923. Photography 10/04/06. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4645521: View on the Sacre Coeur and rue Charles Nodier in Paris 75018. Photograph 10/04/06. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645613: Spitzer space telescope - Artist's view - Artwork of Spitzer in its heliocentric orbit - Spitzer space telescope observes the universe in infrared; it was launched and put into orbit in August 2003. The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility) was launched into space by a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 25 August 2003. During its mission, Spitzer will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space between wavelengths of 3 and 180 microns (1 micron is one - millionth of a meter). Most of this infrared radiation is blocked by the Earth's atmosphere and cannot be observed from the ground / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645709: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - Illustration - James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - Illustration - The JWST Space Telescope will replace the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013. Equipped with a 6.5 m mirror, he will observe the universe mainly in infrared / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4645736: Bedroom of the Chateau de Champs sur Marne, 1699-1706 (photo), Bullet, Pierre (c.1639-1716) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645846: Darwin Space Telescope - Illustration - Space Telescope Project consists of four telescopes measuring 3m in diameter observing infrared and operating interferometry. The objective of this project is to detect planets outside our solar system, similar to Earth / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4645584: Conquest England by the Duke of Normandy William the Conquerant (1027-1087), 1066 (tapestry), Unknown Artist, (11th century) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4645596: Convent of the Whirling Dervishes, Ottoman School / Bridgeman Images

TEC4645605: Boulevard Barbes in Paris 75018. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645639: The Kepler Spacecraft: The Kepler satellite observes exoplanets in transit. Kepler is a satellite launched in March 2009 and designed to search the nearby region of our galaxy for Earth-size planets orbiting in the habitable zone of stars like our sun / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645650: Satellite Kepler - Kepler spacecraft - Kepler satellite in clean room. Kepler is a satellite launched in March 2009, designed to discover inhabitable exoplanets in our galaxy. Nasa's Kepler spacecraft in a clean room at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado. Kepler is a spaceborne telescope launched in march 2009 and designed to search the nearby region of our galaxy for Earth - size planets orbiting in the habitable zone of stars like our sun / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645744: James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors (JWST) - Testing of the JWST's mirrors - Six of the 18 JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) mirrors seen at Nasa's Marshall Space Center. These mirrors will be tested there to ensure they will withstand the extreme temperatures of space vacuum. The JWST will replace the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014. Equipped with a 6.5 m mirror, he will observe the universe mainly in infrared. Six of the 18 James Webb Space Telescope mirror segments are being moved into the X - ray and Cryogenic Facility, or XRCF, at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to eventually experience temperatures dipping to a chilling - 414 degrees Fahrenheit to ensure they can withstand the extreme space environments. The test chamber takes approximately five days to cool a mirror segment to cryogenic temperatures. Marshall's X - ray & Cryogenic Facility is the world's largest X - ray telescope test facility and a unique, cryogenic, clean room optical test location. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared - optimized space telescope scheduled for launch in 2014. Equipped with a large mirror 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in diameter, it will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy and will reside in an orbit about 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from the Earth / Bridgeman Images

MDA4645863: Demolition. Corner building between Rue de Timbouctou and Boulevard de la Chapelle, Paris75018. Photography 1989; / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4645894: "Portrait of Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (1749-1791), 18th century (oil on canvas), Anonymous / Bridgeman Images

LRI4645933: Islamic Art: ceramic plaque depicting the tomb of Muhammad (Muhammad) in Medina (Medina) present-day Saudi Arabia. Ceramic of the 16-17th century. Cairo, Museum of Islamic Arts., Islamic School, (16th century) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645934: Space telescope TPF - Illustration - Space telescope TPF - Illustration - Space telescope project consists of several telescopes measuring 3 to 4m in diameter observing in infrared and operating in interferometry. The objective of this project is to detect planets outside our solar system, similar to Earth. This interferometer will also be supported by a telescope of 4 to 6m diameter equipped with a coronographer (not shown in this illustration) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4646066: La Tourette accommodation in the Old Port district in Marseille - Square Protis - Marseille, 1952 - Fernand Pouillon (c) Collection Artedia/Pouillon Fernand /Artedia/Leemage, Pouillon, Fernand (1912-86) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4646142: Satellite Herschel - Illustration - Artist's view of the European satellite Herschel. The Herschel Space Observatory, scheduled to launch in 2009, will study in the infrared the formation of galaxies, stars and planetary systems. This satellite measures nearly 7 metres high by 4.3 metres wide and weighs 3.25 tonnes. Its telescope has a 3.5-meter mirror, making it the largest mirror ever made for a scientific space mission. Herschel will orbit around Lagrange 2, approximately 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. ESA's Herschel Space Observatory (formerly called Far Infrared and Submillimetre Telescope or FIRST) will solve the mystery of how stars and galaxies were born. Objects such as other planetary systems, or processes like the birth of galaxies in the early universe, can best be studied with infrared space telescopes in space. This is the reason for Esa's Herschel. ESA's Herschel Space Observatory will be bigger and better than any of its predecessors. Moreover, it will observe at wavelengths never covered before. It will be located 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth, farther than any previous space telescope. Due for launch in 2009, Herschel is one the Cornerstone missions ESA's Horizons 2000 programme. Herschel is a key project space astronomy in the next millennium / Bridgeman Images

LRI4645886: Islamic Art: Silver and copper candlestick of the 13th century. A rider with a bow is represented on the object. Cairo, Museum of Islamic Art, Islamic School, (13th century) / Bridgeman Images

MDA4645888: Corner building rue Custine Paris 75018. Photography 1990. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4646048: Herschel Satellite - Illustration - Herschel Satellite. Artwork - Artist's view of the European satellite Herschel. The Herschel Space Observatory, scheduled to launch in 2009, will study in the infrared the formation of galaxies, stars and planetary systems. This satellite measures nearly 7 metres high by 4.3 metres wide and weighs 3.25 tonnes. Its telescope has a 3.5-meter mirror, making it the largest mirror ever made for a scientific space mission. Herschel will orbit around Lagrange 2, approximately 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. ESA's Herschel Space Observatory (formerly called Far Infrared and Submillimetre Telescope or FIRST) will solve the mystery of how stars and galaxies were born. Infrared astronomy is as young as it is fruitful. In less than three decades infrared astronomers have unveiled tens of thousands of new galaxies, and have made discoveries as surprising as the huge amounts of water vapour that fill the galaxy. Yet scientists know there is still much more to discover. Objects such as other planetary systems, or processes like the birth of galaxies in the early universe, can best be studied with infrared space telescopes in space. This is the reason for Esa's Herschel. ESA's Herschel Space Observatory will be bigger and better than any of its predecessors. Moreover, it will observe at wavelengths never covered before. It will be located 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth, farther than any previous space telescope. Due for launch in 2009, Herschel is one the Cornerstone missions ESA's Horizons 2000 programme. Herschel is a key project space astronomy in the next millennium / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4646294: Painting lovers, 1860 (oil on canvas), Meissonier, Jean-Louis Ernest (1815-91) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4646318: French revolution: a peasant and a priest shake hands, 18th century (engraving), French School, (18th century) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4646354: Spartan 201 satellite - Spartan 201 satellite seen over the Earth from space shuttle Discovery in September 1994. Astronauts onboard the space shuttle Discovery used a 70 mm camera to capture this photograph of the retrieval operations with the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201). A gibbous moon can be seen in the background. 9 - 20 Sep 1994 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4648869: Millenium Dome in London (England), directed by Richard Rogers in 1999., Rogers, Richard (b.1933) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4648907: Decolation of space shuttle Discovery on 4 July 2006. Mission STS-121 - Decolation of the space shuttle Discovery - Decolation of the space shuttle Discovery on 4 July 2006. Mission STS-12 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4648958: Shuttle Discovery seen from International Space Station 07 - 2006 - Shuttle Discovery sets up for inspection of its thermal shield. Mission STS-121 - 6 July 200 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4649023: Column of Trafalgar Square in London (Great Britain). / Bridgeman Images

TEC4649058: Picadilly Circus to London (Great Britain). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4649059: Astronauts in Weighttlessness 06/2008 - Astronauts in Weighttlessness - 06/2008 - Astronauts from STS-124 and Expedition 17 meet to share a meal on board the Space Shuttle Discovery. From the bottom left, Mark Kelly, Sergei Volkov, Garrett Reisman, Oleg Kononenko, Greg Chamitoff, Mike Fossum, Akihiko Hoshide, Karen Nyberg, and Ken Ham. 8 June 2008. A “” fish - eye”” lens on a digital still camera was used to record this image of the STS - 124 and Expedition 17 crewmembers as they share a meal on the middeck of the Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station. Pictured counter - clockwise (from the left bottom) are NASA astronauts Mark Kelly, STS - 124 commander; Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, Expedition 17 commander; NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, STS - 124 mission specialist; Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko; NASA astronauts Greg Chamitoff, both Expedition 17 flight engineers; NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, all STS - 124 mission specialists; and NASA astronaut Ken Ham, STS - 124 pilot. 8 June 2008 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4649081: The Atlantis shuttle en route to its firing pitch - 09/2008 - Space Shuttle Atlantis - 09/2008 - Space Shuttle Atlantis, perched on its mobile platform (crawler) en route to its launch pad for the STS-125 mission. September 2008. Space shuttle Atlantis rolls towards Launch Pad 39A at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center on September 4, 2008. The shuttle stack, with solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank attached to Atlantis, rest on the mobile launcher platform. Movement is provided by the crawler - transporter underneath. Atlantis is scheduled to launch on the STS - 125 mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope / Bridgeman Images

TEC4649088: The telecommunications tower in London (Great Britain). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4649122: Decolation of the space shuttle Atlantis. 05/2009 - STS - 125 lift - off - Decolation of the space shuttle Atlantis with the crew of the mission STS-125. This 11-day mission aims to maintain the Hubble space telescope. May 11, 2009. Space shuttle Atlantis roars into the cloudy sky above Launch Pad 39A at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the STS - 125 mission. Blue cones of light, mach diamonds, can be seen beneath the engine nozzles. The mach diamonds are a formation of shock waves in the exhaust plume of an aerospace propulsion system. Atlantis will meet with Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope. Liftoff was on time at 2:01 p.m. EDT. Atlantis' 11 - day flight will include five spacewalks to refurbish and upgrade the telescope with state - of - the - art science instruments that will expand Hubble's capabilities and extend its operational lifespan through at least 2014. The payload includes a Wide Field Camera 3, fine guidance sensor and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph. May 11 2009 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4648885: Millenium Dome in London (England), directed by Richard Rogers in 1999., Rogers, Richard (b.1933) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4648899: Waterloo station in London (England). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4648918: Decollage de la shuttle Discovery 07/2006 - Launch of space shuttle Discovery 07/2006 - Decollage de la shuttle Discovery le 4 juillet 2006. Mission STS-121. Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven - member crew launched to the International Space Station on the STS - 121 mission. Jul 04 2006 / Bridgeman Images