PIX4600610: ISS 12/01 - Partial view of the international space station after the observed stowage of the shuttle Endeavour. ISS STS - 108. 15Dec 2001 / 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

TEC4600912: L'Hotel des Ambassadeurs de Hollande, 47 rue Vieille du Temple, Paris 4th arrondissement. Construction 1655, architect Pierre Cottard (1630-1686). / Bridgeman Images

TEC4601019: Rue du Tresor and Rue Vieille du Temple in Paris. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4601115: L'Hotel de Croisilles, Mediatheque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 12 rue du Parc Royal, Paris 3rd arrondissement. Construction around 1620. Conversion carried out by architect Christiane Schmuckle-Mollard in 1988 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4601191: The Quai des Orfevres in Paris. / 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

TEC4622366: Rue de l'Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622386: Nebulas IC 1805 and IC 1848 in Cassiopee - Nebulas IC 1805 and IC 1848 in Cassiopeia - IC 1848 (left) is an emission nebula associated with a cluster of stars; it also houses the CR 34 star cluster. On the right, the largest nebula, IC 1805. LBN 667 is the large area of red emission nebulosity on the left side of the image. Open clusters CR 34 and IC 1848 are embedded in the nebula. IC 1805 is the large area of nebulosity on the right side of the image. NGC 896, a bright knot of nebulosity, is at the upper right of the photo. IC 1805 looks vaguely like a heart if you rotate your head 90 degrees counterclockwise and use your imagination when you look at the photo. The loose open cluster Mel 15 lies at the center of IC 1805, and open cluster NGC 1027 is just above right of the center of the image at top / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622421: The Chapel of the Sorbonne and Boulevard Saint Michel in Paris. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622475: Musee national du Middle Ages et des thermal baths de Cluny, 6 place Paul Painleve in Paris in the 5th arrondissement.The thermal baths of Cluny date from the end of the 3rd century. They were the largest of the three ancient establishments in the public baths of Lutece. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622496: Nebula Van den Bergh 93 (VdB 93) in Unicorn - Nebula Van den Bergh 93 (VdB 93) - VDB 93 is a star-forming region belonging to nebula IC 2177. The star SAO 152320, in the center of the image, illuminates this nebula located in the constellation Unicorn, about 4000 years old - light from Earth. Curtains of gas and dust dramatically open here to reveal the inner region of this starforming region. Unceremoniously named, bright star SAO 152320 shines with intense light in the center of this field. Clouds of gas glow strongly and dust shrinks quickly under its radiative prowess. This vista lies some 4,000 light years away towards the constellation of Monoceros. This is a portion of a much larger nebula called Gum 1 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622507: Grande Mosquee de Paris, 2 bis place du Puits de l'Ermite, Paris 5th. Construction 1922-1926, architects Fournez, Heubes and Mantout. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622528: Nebula IC 2177 in the Unicorn - IC 2177 The Seagull nebula - IC 2177, is a large emission nebula located at the edge of the constellations of the Unicorn and the Great Dog. Image obtained through 3 different filters that highlight oxygen (blue), hydrogen (green), and sulfur (red). IC 2177, also known as the Eagle or Seagull Nebula, is a large emission nebulosity located on the border between Monoceros and Canis Major, about 7.5 degrees northeast of Sirius. This image is in the classic “” Hubble palette”” where SII is assigned to red, H - alpha to green, and OIII to blue. RGB frames were taken for star colors / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622607: Nebulae IC 2948 and 2944 in Centaur - A large southern emission nebula, IC 2948 - Nebula IC 2948 is a vast nebula located about 6000 years from Earth in the southern constellation of Centaur. It is associated with the cluster of stars IC 2944 near which Bok's blood cells are visible. A Bok's blood cell is a dark interstellar cloud of gases and dust that absorb light. If it condenses enough, it gives birth to new stars. Between the Southern Cross and the rich Carina region, on the southern border of Centaurus, is a large, almost featureless emission nebula, IC 2948, with a sprinkling of bright stars, Collinder 249. It is against this uniform, backdrop that we see a brighter region (IC 2944) which hosts small group of dark clouds of the kind known as 'Bok globules'. They are named for the Dutch - American astronomer who first drew attention to them as the possible sites of star formation. There are young stars scattered through the nebula and these stars are responsible for its existence. The stars only 10 million years old and the hydrogen they illuminate seems to be unusually thinly spread and very uniform, so the nebula is both faint and extensive. It is also quite distant, about 6000 light years and is only two degrees from the Galactic plane, so there are many foreground stars / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622622: Gargouille de l'Hotel de Cluny (1548-1560), Musee national du Moyen Age, Paris 5th. One of the most beautiful monuments of medieval civil architecture in Paris elevated to the iniative of the Abbes of Cluny by Jacques d'Amboise, brother of the cardinal minister. Restores after the ransacking of the Revolution, it now houses collections of sculptures and art objects from the Middle Ages. Repabtise since 1991, National Museum of the Middle Ages Thermes of Cluny. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622655: The Pantheon in Paris. Construction 1757-1790, architect Jacques Germain Soufflot (1713-1780). In 1744 Louis XV, suffering from a serious illness in Metz, would wish to erect an immense church instead of the abbey of Sainte Genevieve, which was then in ruins. When the war came, he kept his word and assigned the architect Soufflot the task of drawing the plans of the monument. A great admirer of Greek Roman architecture, he imagined a gigantic building, built on a plan of Greek cross 110 metres long, 84 metres wide and 83 metres high. At the time, the project seemed so insane that many, in the court and in the salons of the capital, would question Soufflot's abilities and prevent the collapse of the monument. Louis XV confirmed his confidence in the architect and laid the foundation stone in 1764 during a grand ceremony. In 1806, the Pantheon, like all the churches in France closed during the revolution, was restored to its original name of Sainte Genevieve church. Renamed Pantheon in 1830, the building regained its vocation as a laique and patriotic temple. Headquarters to the insurgents of the Commune in 1871, during which Milliere was shot on the steps, the building was definitively transformed into a Republican monument in 1885, during the funeral of Victor Hugo. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622659: The Pantheon in Paris. Construction 1757-1790, architect Jacques Germain Soufflot (1713-1780). In 1744 Louis XV, suffering from a serious illness in Metz, would wish to erect an immense church instead of the abbey of Sainte Genevieve, which was then in ruins. When the war came, he kept his word and assigned the architect Soufflot the task of drawing the plans of the monument. A great admirer of Greek Roman architecture, he imagined a gigantic building, built on a plan of Greek cross 110 metres long, 84 metres wide and 83 metres high. At the time, the project seemed so insane that many, in the court and in the salons of the capital, would question Soufflot's abilities and prevent the collapse of the monument. Louis XV confirmed his confidence in the architect and laid the foundation stone in 1764 during a grand ceremony. In 1806, the Pantheon, like all the churches in France closed during the revolution, was restored to its original name of Sainte Genevieve church. Renamed Pantheon in 1830, the building regained its vocation as a laique and patriotic temple. Headquarters to the insurgents of the Commune in 1871, during which Milliere was shot on the steps, the building was definitively transformed into a Republican monument in 1885, during the funeral of Victor Hugo. / Bridgeman Images