PIX4637091: Summer triangle and Milky way - Summer triangle and Milky way - Summer lake route with summer triangle consists of the stars Deneb du Swan, Vega de la Lyre and Altair de l'Eagle. From bottom to top and left to right: Pegase, the Dolphin, the Eagle, the Fleche, the Swan, the Lyre, the Dragon, Hercules, a tip of the Little Bear and the Crown Boreale June 24, 2008. From bottom to top and left to right: Pegasus, Delphinus, Aquila, Sagitta, Cygnus, Lyra, Draco, Hercules, a part of Ursa Minor and Corona Borealis. June 24 2008 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4637204: Autumn lactee route - Pointe du Raz - Autumn Milky way - Pointe du Raz - The lactee route above Notre Dame des Shipwrecks, Pointe du Raz. Brittany, 27 September 2008. Milky Way above the statue dedicated to “” Our Lady of the Shipwrecks”””. The zodiacal band is visible under the aspect of a fuzzy and pale band extending from the top of the statue to the upper right. A the top of the picture is the powerful lighthouse of the Sein Island. at Pointe du Raz, the western tip of France. Brittany, 27 September 2008 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4637237: Lactee and Jupiter - Milky way and Jupiter - The Lactee Way accompanied by Jupiter, the bright planet on the left, seen from Cherry Springs State Park in the United States. The center of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, sets in the southwest as night begins at the Cherry Springs State Park, one of the darkest observing locations in the eastern United States. The Milky Way is a vast collection of more than 200 billion stars, planets, nebulae, clusters, dust and gas. Our own Sun and solar system are also part of the Milky Way galaxy. Seen as a luminous band of light and star clouds that stretch across the night sky, the brighter star clouds of the Milky Way are frequently mistaken for real Earth-bound clouds by observers who are unfamiliar with their appearance. Sometimes interrupted by dark nebulae and rifts, these star clouds are actually innumerable unresolved faint stars. The central bulge of the Milky Way, the brightest and most spectacular portion, is visible here in the Sagittarius region, seen at the lower left. Numerous dark nebula, clouds of non-luminous dust that obscure the stars behind them, are also part of the Milky Way and are scattered throughout the image. Brilliant Jupiter is the brightest “” star”” in the image, seen at left / Bridgeman Images
PIX4637471: Lactee and Summer Triangle - Summer triangle and Milky way - Summer lactee route with summer triangle consists of the stars Deneb du Swan, Vega de la Lyre and Altair de l'Aigle. Lesconil, Finistere. Summer Milky way seen in Brittany. The bright stars are from top to bottom Deneb, Vega and Altair which form the summer triangle / Bridgeman Images
PIX4637736: Lactee and Zodiacal Light - Milky Way and Zodiacal light: Lactee and Zodiacal Light in Tyrol. The zodiacal light is the elongated glow blade visible in the sky. It comes from the reflection of the Sun's light on the countless interplanetary dust and draws the plane of the Solar System / Bridgeman Images
PIX4600869: Back to Earth of the Soyuz TM capsule - 33 - 05/2002 - Return module of Soyuz TM - 33 - 05/2002 - View of the Soyuz TM capsule - 33 after landing in the Kazakhstan steppes on 5 May 2002. The recovery team is preparing to get astronauts Roberto Vittori, Yuri Gidzenko and Mark Shuttleworth out of the capsule. Russian recovery team members gather around the scorched return module of Soyuz TM - 33, shortly after its landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan and the completion of the Marco Polo mission to the International Space Station (ISS), on May 5, 2002. The recovery team is about to install a scaffolding to help the crew out the module. The Marco Polo mission, with ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori, from Italy, was performed under an agreement between Russia's Rosaviakosmos, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and ESA. Roberto Vittori was launched into space onboard Soyuz TM - 34 at 12:26 local time on April 25 with Russian mission commander Yuri Gidzenko and South African flight participant Mark Shuttleworth. The spacecraft successfully docked with the ISS two days later. Roberto Vittori spent one week onboard the orbital outpost, performing experiments, and returned to Earth with his crewmates onboard Soyuz TM - 33. Soyuz TM - 33 landed safely some 26 km south - east of the city of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan, at 10:51 local time, concluding a mission that lasted 237 hours and 25 minutes / Bridgeman Images