TEC4627842: Church of the Holy Spirit, Avenue Daumesnil in Paris. Architect Paul Tournon (1881-1964), 1935. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4627850: Rue de Bercy in Paris. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4627908: Total solar eclipse - Turkey 29 March 2006 - Total solar eclipse - Turkey - March 29, 2006 - Total solar eclipse observed in Side, Turkey on 29 March 2006. Venus is visible at the bottom right. Total solar eclipse seen in Side, Turkey on March 29, 2006. Venus is visible at bottom right / Bridgeman Images

PIX4651793: Boyden Observatory - South Africa - Boyden observatory - South Africa - The 1.5 metre telescope. Bloemfontein, South Africa. The 1.5 m telescope. Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa / Bridgeman Images

PIX4651996: CERGA Observatory: Laser - Moon & Laser - Satellite - CERGA Observatory: Laser - Moon & Laser - Satellite - 21/01/0 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652108: 21/01/00: Calern Observatory (CERGA): interferometer GI2T - Calern observatory (CERGA): the GI2T/Regain interferometer / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652194: The Soirdete interferometer observes cool stars at infrared wavelengths.: Observatory of Calern (CERGA): interferometer Soirdete - Calern observatory (CERGA): the Soirdete interferometer / Bridgeman Images

ITR4652263: Basin of L'Octagon, transformed by Andre le Notre. Parc du chateau de Sceaux (Hauts de Seine). 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

PIX4652289: Plateau de Chajnantor et voie lactee - Chajnantor plateau and milky way - Réseau Alma. Chajnantor Plateau, 5100 m altitude, Chile. June 2008 Alma network, Chajnantor plateau in Atacama Desert, Chile. June 2008 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652301: ALMA - Plateau de Chajnantor - 2011 - Chajnantor plateau and starry sky - Alma Reseau. The Moon shines in the center of the lactee lane. Chajnantor Plateau, 5100 m altitude, Chile. October 2011. ALMA under the Moon in Milky Way. Chajnantor plateau in Atacama Desert, Chile. October 2011 / Bridgeman Images

ITR4652335: Chateau de Sceaux (Hauts de Seine). The Musee de l'Ile de France is located on the ground floor of the chateau and opened its doors in 1937. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4630291: Planets of the solar system -2006 - Our solar system. 2006 - Planets are represented in order of proximity to the sun. From top to bottom: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Moon, its satellite, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Since August 2006, Pluto is now called 134340 Pluto and is no longer considered a planet but designed as a dwarf planet. This is a montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Included are (from top to bottom) images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The spacecraft responsible for these images are as follows: the Mercury image was taken by Mariner 10, the Venus image by Magellan, the Earth and Moon images by Galileo, the Mars image by Mars Global Surveyor, the Jupiter image by Cassini, and the Saturn, Uranus and Neptune images by Voyager. Pluto is not shown as no spacecraft has yet visited it. The inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, and Mars) are roughly to scale to each other; the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) are roughly to scale to each other / Bridgeman Images

OMG4630451: Business Bay business district in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. / Bridgeman Images

OMG4630457: Dubai Business Bay (UAE) business district. Photo 17/12/09. / Bridgeman Images

OMG4630543: Dubai's Business Bay business district (UAE). Architect SOM, 2009. Photography 17/12/09. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4630554: Meteor Crater - Arizona (USA) - - Impact Crater Meteor Crater, Arizona (USA), seen by the International Space Station on March 1, 2007. This crater measures 1,200 metres in diameter and 180 metres in depth. He would have formed about 50,000 years ago. / Bridgeman Images

OMG4630596: The Park Towers, in DIFC, Dubai's financial district, UAE. Photography 17/12/09. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4630629: Impact Crater Gweni - Fada - Cratere Gweni - Fada, impact crater located in Chad. Its diameter is 14 km and it would have been shaped 345 million years ago. Image made from the International Space Station on 3 November 2006 / Bridgeman Images

OMG4630821: The construction sites at the foot of the Burj Dubai Tower in Dubai (UAE). Architects SOM, (Skidmore, Owings, Merrill), construction 2009. Photography 17/12/09. / Bridgeman Images

OMG4630896: Emirates Park Towers Twin Towers in Dubai, UAE. Construction 2010, Architects Archgroup Consultants. Photography 17/12/09. / Bridgeman Images

OMG4630911: Burj Dubai Tower, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Architects SOM, Skidmore Owings Merrill, construction 2009. Photography 17/12/09. / Bridgeman Images

EVB5802521: George Bush and wife Barbara, 1945. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652596: Radiotelescopes ALMA - The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) - Artwork - Artist's view of the European network of submilimeter antennas Alma located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), one of the largest ground - based astronomy projects of the next decade, is a major new facility for world astronomy. ALMA will be comprised of a giant array of 12 - m submillimetre quality antennas, with baselines of several kilometers. An additional, compact array of 7 - m and 12 - m antennas is also foreseen. Construction of ALMA started in 2003 and will be completed in 2010. The ALMA project is an international collaboration between Europe, Japan and North America in cooperation with the Republic of Chile / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652609: Radiotelescopes ALMA - The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) - Artwork - Artist's view of the European network of submilimetric antennas ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), one of the largest ground - based astronomy projects of the next decade, is a major new facility for world astronomy. ALMA will be comprised of a giant array of 12 - m submillimetre quality antennas, with baselines of several kilometers. An additional, compact array of 7 - m and 12 - m antennas is also foreseen. Construction of ALMA started in 2003 and will be completed in 2010. The ALMA project is an international collaboration between Europe, Japan and North America in cooperation with the Republic of Chile / Bridgeman Images

PIX4652988: Milky Way above Cerro Armazones - Star sky at the top of Cerro Armazones. This 3060-metre mountain in Chile will host the giant telescope E - ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope). The construction of this 42-metre telescope is expected to start at the end of 2010 and will be inaugurated around 2018. Its main mirror will consist of 906 hexagonal mirrors assembled together, and its total surface will be equal to that of a football field. On 26 April 2010, the ESO Council selected Cerro Armazones as the baseline site for the planned 42 - metre European Extremely Large Telescope (E - ELT). Cerro Armazones is a mountain at an altitude of 3060 metres in the central part of Child's Atacama Desert, some 130 kilometres south of the town of Antofagasta and about 20 kilometres from Cerro Paranal, home of Eso's Very Large Telescope / Bridgeman Images

PIX4653068: Telescope E - ELT - Artist's view - European Extremely Large Telescope - Artwork - Artist's view of the E - ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope), a telescope project measuring 42 metres in diameter. Construction of this European project could start in 2010, with a planned inauguration around 2017. Its main mirror will consist of 906 hexagonal mirrors assembled together, and its total surface will be equal to that of a football field. With a 42 - m diameter primary mirror, the present baseline, its total rotating mass is 5500 tons. The two platforms on each side of the structure hold large instruments. The telescope features a novel, innovative design, based on 5 mirrors. The primary 42 - m mirror is composed of 906 segments, each 1.45 m wide, while the secondary mirror is as large as 6 m in diameter. A tertiary mirror, 4.2 m in diameter, relays the light to the adaptive optics system, composed of two mirrors: a 2.5 - m mirror supported by 5000 or more actuators so as to be able to distort its own shape a thousand times per second, and one 2.7 m in diameter that allows for the final image corrections. This five mirror approach results in an exceptional image quality, with no significant aberrations in the field of view / Bridgeman Images

PIX4653323: Mirrors of one of the gamma ray telescopes HESS - Mirror of Gamma rays telescope HESS - Telescope of the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) network located in Namibia near Gamsberg. This network of telescopes is dedicated to the study of high energy gamma rays. High Energy Stereoscopic System or HESS is a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) for the investigation of cosmic gamma rays. It is located in Namibia, near Gamsberg / Bridgeman Images

OMG4631168: Palm Jumeirah Island in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. / Bridgeman Images

OMG4631392: Hotel Atlantis on Palm Jumeirah Island in Dubai (UAE). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4631474: Organic Farming - Barley field - Organic Farming - Barley field - Organic Farming in Marne. Sign in an organic barley cultivation in United Kingdom / Bridgeman Images

LBY4631567: Mumbai, AbomBay, India. Photograph 10/10/07. / Bridgeman Images

LBY4631609: Mumbai (Bombay) in India. Photography 10/10/07 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4653725: Housing building, 11 rue Agar in Paris 75016. Architect Hector Guimard (1867-1942), 1911. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4653758: Hotel Guimard, 122 avenue Mozart in Paris 75016. Architect Hector Guimard (1867-1942), 1910-1913. Following his marriage in 1909, with the painter Adeline Oppenheim, Hector Guimard built a hotel for his home and his architect agency: 90 square meters on the ground on six levels with an elevator and an internal staircase. Following his deces, Adeline Oppenheim proposed to the State to transform the hotel on Avenue Mozart into a museum. She was refused. The furniture was scattered and the archives destroyed. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4653769: Immeuble Jassede 142 avenue de Versailles and 1 rue Lancret - Paris 16th arrondissement. Architect Hector Guimard (1867-1942), 1910-1913. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4653826: Aerial view of Dusseldorf, 1990 - Photography / Bridgeman Images