PIX4580152: Cluster of stars NGC 299 in Toucan - Open cluster NGC 299 in Tucana: NGC 299 is an open cluster located in the galaxy of the Little Magellan Cloud. Image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). NGC 299 is an open star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud just under 200 000 light-years away. Open clusters such as this are collections of stars weakly bound by the shackles of gravity, all of which formed from the same massive molecular cloud of gas and dust. Because of this, all the stars have the same age and composition, but vary in their mass because they formed at different positions within the cloud. This unique property not only ensures a spectacular sight when viewed through a sophisticated instrument attached to a telescope such as Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, but gives astronomers a cosmic laboratory in which to study the formation and evolution of stars - a process that is thought to depend strongly on a star's mass / Bridgeman Images
PIX4577433: The hidden face of the Moon and the Earth seen from DSCOVR. 07/2015 - Far side of the Moon with Earth seen from DSCOVR. 07/2015 - This image obtained on July 16, 2015 by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite shows the passage of the Moon and its face hidden from the Earth. The distance between DSCOVR and Earth is about 1.5 million kilometres. The Moon was approximately 400,000 kilometres from Earth, so it was closer to DSCOVR and therefore appears larger than it is in relation to Earth. This image shows the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera and telescope, and the Earth - one million miles away. July 16 2015 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4577819: Soap factory: a man stirts a tank full of fat into a boil, another cuts the hardened soap with a copper wire - Soap boiler making soap in a factory. A man stirs a vat of boiling fat and ley, while another cuts the hardened soap with a copper wire in wooden frames. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4599946: ISS: Unity, Zarya and Zvezda modules. 09/2000 - ISS: Unity, Zarya and Zvezda modules. 09/2000 - Unity, Zarya and Zvezda modules photographs from the Atlantis shuttle. 10/09/2000 The three modules of the International Space Station (Zarya, Unity and Zvezda) are in orbit over the South China Sea. Sep 10 2000 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4599950: ISS: Unity, Zarya and Zvezda modules. 09/2000 - ISS: Unity, Zarya and Zvezda modules. 09/2000 - Unity, Zarya and Zvezda modules photographs from the Atlantis shuttle. 18/09/2000 Backdropped against black space above Earth's horizon, the International Space Station (ISS) is seen following its undocking with the Space Shuttle Atlantis. After accomplishing all mission objectives in outfitting the station for the first resident crew, the seven astronauts and cosmonauts undocked at 3:46 GMT on Sept. 18 over Russia near the northeastern portion of the Ukraine. When Atlantis was at a safe distance from the station, about 450 feet, astronaut Scott D. Altman, pilot, performed a 90 - minute, double - loop fly around to enable the crew to document the station's exterior. He fired Atlantis' jets one final time to separate from the station at 5:35 (GMT) September 18 2000 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4600000: Muscadier - Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans, with flower, nutmeg seed and mace aril. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4600019: Black Murier - Common mulberry tree, Morus nigra, with flower, leaf, and ripe fruit. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
PIX4600076: S. Krikalev in module Zvezda (ISS) 12/2000 - Cosmonaut S.Krikalev in Zvezda module (ISS) 12/2000 - Sergei K. Krikalev works in module Zvezda. ISS Expedition 1/STS-97. 06/12/2000. With his feet anchored in a tunnel hatchway, cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, Expedition 1 flight engineer, works in the Zvezda Service Module aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Krikalev is with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency / Bridgeman Images
FLO4600108: Climbing hops - Hops, Humulus lupulus. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
PIX4600180: Self-portrait of Joseph R. Tanner. 12/2000 - Close up of the J. Tanner's helmet visor 12/2000 - Self-portrait of the astronaut Joseph R. Tanner. 03/12/2000. Joseph P. Tanner, STS - 97 mission specialist, used the pictured 35 mm camera to expose a photo of his helmet visor during the light's first space walk on Dec. 5, 2000. Among the objects visible among the reflections in the visor is part of the blue and white Earth, some 235 miles below. December 03 2000 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4600202: White lily - Madonna lily, Lilium candidum. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images