PIX4643111: Fusee Soyuz - Fregat et satellite Giove - B - Vue d'artiste - Giove - B satellite in Soyuz - Fregat rocket - Artist view - Vue d'artiste du satellite Giove - B (Galileo In - Orbit Validation Element - B) places in the cap of a Soyuz - Fregat rocket. Giove - B (Galileo In - Orbit Validation Element - B) into a Soyuz - Fregat rocket. Artist view / Bridgeman Images

PIX4643577: Bepicolombo will be a mission to explore the planet Mercury, carried out jointly by the Japanese Space Agency and the European Space Agency. Its launch is scheduled in October 2018, to reach Mercure in 2025. Two probes form the Bepicolombo mission, the Mercury Planet Orbiter (DFO), which will perform a complete mapping of the surface of Mercury and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), which will study the Mercurian magnetosphere. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4643590: Bepicolombo will be a mission to explore the planet Mercury, carried out jointly by the Japanese Space Agency and the European Space Agency. Its launch is scheduled for October 2018, to reach Mercure in 2025. Two probes form the Bepicolombo mission, the Mercury Planet Orbiter (DFO), which will perform a complete mapping of the surface of Mercury, and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), which will study the Mercurian magnetosphere. On his 7-year journey, the probe will pass twice near Venus. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4643732: The New Horizons probe near 2014 MU69 - Artist's View - New Horizons and 2014 MU69 (binary) - Artwork: Artist's view of the New Horizons probe near the small object of Kuiper 2014 MU69. Observations in 2017 show that 2014 MU69 would be either a binary object (model favors), in contact or not, or a single object lengthens. Speculative illustration of Nasa's New Horizons interplanetary probe flying by classical Kuiper belt object (486958) 2014 MU69, about 3 billion miles from the Earth, on 1 January 2019. 2014 MU69 is either a single elongated object about 30 miles long, or two smaller objects orbiting very closely together, maybe even touching; this image illustrates the latter. New Horizons is about the size and shape of a grand piano and weighed 1,054 pounds at launch. The high-gain dish antenna is about 7 feet in diameter and is employed for communication with the Earth / Bridgeman Images

PIX4643771: The New Horizons probe near 2014 MU69 - Artist's View - New Horizons and 2014 MU69 (single) - Artwork: Artist's view of the New Horizons probe near the small object of Kuiper 2014 MU69. Observations in 2017 show that 2014 MU69 would be either a binary object (model favors), in contact or not, or a single object lengthens (as here). Speculative illustration of Nasa's New Horizons interplanetary probe flying by classical Kuiper belt object (486958) 2014 MU69, about 3 billion miles from the Earth, on 1 January 2019. 2014 MU69 is either a single elongated object about 30 miles long, or two smaller objects orbiting very closely together, maybe even touching; this image illustrates the latter. New Horizons is about the size and shape of a grand piano and weighed 1,054 pounds at launch. The high-gain dish antenna is about 7 feet in diameter and is employed for communication with the Earth / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644031: Satellite Parasol - Artist's view of the microsatellite Parasol in orbit around the Earth. This satellite launched in December 2004 studies the Earth's atmosphere. Parasol is a english earth observation microsatellite launched in december 2004 to study the Earth atmosphere / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644041: Satellite Demeter - Artist's view of the Earth observation satellite Demeter (Detection of Electro Magnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions), orbiting the Earth. This microsatellite launched in June 2004 studies electromagnetic signals that appear to be linked to earthquakes. Demeter (Detection of Electro Magnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions) is a english earth observation microsatellite launched in 2004 for developing earthquake prediction in measuring ionospheric disturbances which could be associated with sismic activity / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644070: Launch of the Helios 2A satellite - Satellite Helios 2A launch - Artist's view of the launch of the military satellite Helios 2A and the parasol and swarm microsatellites by an Ariane 5 G+rocket in December 2004. Artwork of the launch of the military satellite Helios 2A with the microsatellites Essaim and Parasol by an ariane 5 rocket in december 2004 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644095: Artist view of the European satellite GOCE in orbit around the Earth - GOCE satellite - Artist view - Artist view of the European satellite GOCE in orbit around the Earth. GoCE (Gravity - Field and Steady - State Ocean Circulation Explorer) is expected to be launched in 2009. Artist view of the European satellite GOCE in Earth orbit. GOCE (Gravity - Field and Steady - State Ocean Circulation Explorer) aims to measure the Earth's gravitational field and is scheduled in 2009 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644106: Artist view of the European satellite GOCE in orbit around the Earth. - GOCE satellite - Artist view - Artist view of the European satellite GOCE in orbit around the Earth. GoCE (Gravity - Field and Steady - State Ocean Circulation Explorer) is expected to be launched in 2009. Artist view of the European satellite GOCE in Earth orbit. GOCE (Gravity - Field and Steady - State Ocean Circulation Explorer) aims to measure the Earth's gravitational field and is scheduled in 2009 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644258: Microsatellite TARANIS - Jet Bleu, Elf and Sprites - Microsatellite TARANIS - Blue jet, Elves and Sprites - Artist's view of the French satellite TARANIS observing a blue jet, elves (halos) and sprites (or red sylphs). TARANIS (for Tool for the Analysis of Radiation from LightNing and Sprites) will study in particular the light phenomena ephemeres (or TLE) that occur in the high atmosphere. Artist view of the CNES satellite TARANIS (for Tool for the Analysis of Radiation from Lightning and Sprites) watching blue jet, elves and sprites. This microsatellite will study the transient luminous events (TLE) which appear in the high atmosphere / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644288: Artist's view of the European satellite Sentinel - 1 in orbit around the Earth / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644308: Microsatellite TARANIS et Jet Bleu - Vue d'artiste - Microsatellite TARANIS and Blue jet - Artist view - Vue d'artiste du satellite francais TARANIS observant un jet bleu. TARANIS (for Tool for the Analysis of Radiation from LightNing and Sprites) will study in particular the light phenomena ephemeres (or TLE) that occur in the high atmosphere. Artist view of the CNES satellite TARANIS (for Tool for the Analysis of Radiation from Lightning and Sprites) watching a blue jet. This microsatellite will study the transient luminous events (TLE) which appear in the high atmosphere / Bridgeman Images

TEC4644751: La Cite des Fleurs in Paris 75017. The town was built in 1847 with the obligation for each owner to plant three flowering trees in his garden. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644764: THEMIS satellites - View of THEMIS satellites in preparation at Cap Canaveral on 8 February 2007. This constellation of five satellites aims to better understand the origin of the polar aurora; for two years, satellites will align along the tail of the Earth's magnetic field to identify disturbances observed in the magnetosphere / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644838: Hubble Satellite Deployment 25 - 04 - 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope deployment April 25 1990 - Seen from the window of the Shuttle Discovery. Grappled by the remote manipulator system end effector of Discovery, the Hubble Space Telescope is held in appendage deploy position. The starboard solar array wing and the two high gain antennae are fully extended. An STS - 31 crewmember took this view through aft flight deck window. The HST is backdropped against the Earth's limb / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644937: Hubble space telescope: 1st maintenance mission 12 - 1993 - The Hubble space telescope first mission repair - The astronaut Story Musgrave is visible at the bottom of this fish-eye photo during the fifth and last extravehicular exit. Behind the space telescope, and Australia. A fisheye lens was used to capture the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), a spherical Earth and Australian landmass with a bit of distortion during the final space walk on the STS - 61 HST - servicing mission. Astronaut F. Story Musgrave can be seen at bottom of the frame. The STS - 61 mission was launched aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on December 2, 1993 / Bridgeman Images

OMG4645002: The Henner Museum, 43 Avenue de Villiers Paris 75017. A mansion built in the second half of the 19th century and bought in 1920 to present the work of the painter Jean Jacques Henner. Architect Felix Staircase. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645100: Hubble Space Telescope: 3rd Maintenance Mission 12 - 1999 - View of astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld during the last extravehicular exit of this maintenance mission, 25-12 - 1999 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645186: Hubble Space Telescope: 4th Maintenance Mission 03 - 2002 - View of the Hubble Space Telescope Catches by the Arm of Shuttle Columbia for its Fourth Maintenance Mission; 3 March 200 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4645263: Place du Tertre in Montmartre Paris 75018. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4645389: Housing, 13 rue des Amiraux in Paris 75018, realised in 1922-1927 by Henri Sauvage (1873-1932). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645395: Hubble space telescope: 4th maintenance mission 05/2009 - Hubble space telescope: fourth repair mission 05/2009 - Astronauts John Grunsfeld (on the robotic arm of the shuttle) and Andrew Feustel (down) during the fifth and last extravehicular exit to maintain the Hubble space telescope (HST). 18 May 2009. Astronaut John Grunsfeld, STS - 125 mission specialist, positioned on a foot restraint on the end of Atlantis' remote manipulator system (RMS), and astronaut Andrew Feustel (bottom center), mission specialist, participate in the mission's fifth and final session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues to refurbish and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. During the seven - hour and two - minute spacewalk, Grunsfeld and Feustel installed a battery group replacement, removed and replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor and three thermal blankets (NOBL) protecting Hubble's electronics. 18 May 2009 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645452: Hubble space telescope: end of the 4th maintenance mission 05/2009 - Hubble space telescope: end of the fourth repair mission - The Hubble space telescope (HST) seen from space shuttle Atlantis after their separation on 19 May 2009. An STS - 125 crew member aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis captured this still image of the Hubble Space Telescope as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation on May 19, after having been linked together for the better part of a week. During the week five spacewalks were performed to complete the final servicing. 19 May 2009 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645472: Hubble space telescope - Artist view - Hubble space telescope - Artist view - The Hubble space telescope is a telescope orbiting the Earth at about 600 km altitude. It is 13 metres long, its main mirror has a diameter of 2.4 metres. He is equipped with spectrometer and several cameras observing the Universe in visible and infrared. The Hubble space telescope is in orbit at about 600 km around the Earth. This 13 meters in length telescope with a mirror of 2.4 meters (94.5 inches) in diameter is also equipped of many cameras and a spectrometer to observe the Universe in the visible and infrared light / Bridgeman Images

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

TEC4645548: Angle boulevard Barbes and rue des Poissonniers in Paris 75018. / 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

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

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

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

PIX4646096: Mirror of the Herschel satellite - Herschel spacecraft's mirror - Inspection of the mirror of the European Herschel satellite. 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. The gigantic telescope of ESA's space - based infrared observatory, Herschel, is being prepared to be assembled with its spacecraft. Herschel's telescope, which will carry the largest mirror ever flown in space, has been delivered to ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, where engineers and scientists are busy with the final steps that will prepare the infrared observatory for launch in 2009. ESA's Herschel Space Observatory will observe at wavelengths never covered before. It will be located 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth, farther than any previous space telescope / 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

TEC4552696: Saint Sulpice Church (Saint Sulpice), Place Saint Sulpice, Paris 6 (France). Architect Jean Nicolas Servandoni, 1646-1780. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4552720: Saint Sulpice Church (Saint Sulpice), Place Saint Sulpice, Paris 6 (France). Architect Jean Nicolas Servandoni, 1646-1780. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4552733: Saint Sulpice Church (Saint Sulpice), Place Saint Sulpice, Paris 6 (France). Architect Jean Nicolas Servandoni, 1646-1780. / Bridgeman Images