PIX4656053: Telescope of 3.60 m from La Silla, Chile - Milky way - La Silla observatory - CAT and 3.6m domes - At 2400 m altitude, the dome of the 3.60 m telescope of the Observatory of La Silla, Chile, is cut off on the Lactee Way. The Jupiter planet rises at the foot of the high tower that houses this telescope, equipped with the HARPS instrument. The 3.6 - m telescope and the attached dome of the CAT are seen under the Milky way. Planet Jupiter is rising between the domes. 3.6 - m telescope is host to the HARPS instrument, perhaps the most successful exoplanet hunter that exists / Bridgeman Images
FLO4654905: Chinese gizzard shad, Clupanodon thrissa, silver hatchetfish, Gasteropelecus levis, and moonfish, Mene maculata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Pee Sr. after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds, Snakes, Fish and Cetaceans, Eymery, Paris, 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4654974: North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis (endangered) and blue whale or fin whale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by David after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds, Snakes, Fish and Cetaceans, Eymery, Paris, 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4655142: White-spotted puffer, Arothron hispidus, evileye blaasop, Amblyrhynchotes honckenii, and oceanic puffer, Lagocephalus lagocephalus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Pee Sr. after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds, Snakes, Fish and Cetaceans, Eymery, Paris, 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4655159: Sargassum pipefish, Syngnathus typhle, little dragonfish, Eurypegasus draconis, and longtail seamouth, Pegasus volitans. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Albert Massard after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds, Snakes, Fish and Cetaceans, Eymery, Paris, 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4655192: Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus 1, gharial, Gavialis gangeticus 2 (critically endangered), and caiman or dragon lizard, Caiman yacare 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Al. Massard after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds, Snakes, Fish and Cetaceans, Eymery, Paris, 1825. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4655311: Observatoire de Haute Provence - Coupole du 1,93m - Haute - Provence Observatory, the 1.93 m telescope dome. - The dome of the telescope of 1,93 m from the observatory of Haute Provence. This is where the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995. The Observatory of Haute-Provence is located in the south-east of France, near the village of St. Michel l'Observatoire, a hundred kilometers north of Marseille, on a plateau with an average altitude of 650 meters. The 1.93 m telescope dome with partially eclipsed moon and startrails. Here has been discovered the first extrasolar planet (51 Peg b) in 1995. OHP is situated in the southeast of France, it lies at an altitude of about 650 m, near the village of Saint-Michel l'Observatoire / Bridgeman Images
FLO4655334: Sergeant major fish, Abudefduf saxatilis 1,2, and pennant coralfish, Heniochus acuminatus 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Miss Coignet after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds, Snakes, Fish and Cetaceans, Eymery, Paris, 1825. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4655938: La Silla Observatory - Chile - 19/10/94 Partial view of the La Silla Observatory (without Swiss telescope, installed next to NTT in 1998) In the foreground: ESO 1,52m, then from right to left, GPO (0,4m), 1.54m Danish, SST (radiotelescope) MPG/ESO 2,2m (centre), 1 m Schmidt, NTT, 3,6 / Bridgeman Images