PIX4568192: Open cluster M44 in cancer - Open star cluster M44 in Cancer - M44 is a cluster of stars located only 600 years - light from Earth, in the constellation Cancer. This field corresponds to the one obtained with binoculars or a small telescope. This star cluster is located about 600 light year away in Cancer.This skyview is corresponding to binoculars and small telescopes / Bridgeman Images
PIX4568671: Open cluster NGC 7789 in Cassiopee - Open cluster NGC 7789 in Cassiopeia - The cluster of stars NGC 7789 is located about 7600 years - light from Earth. It contains about 300 stars, including a number of giant red stars. His age is estimated at 1.6 billion years. The open cluster NGC 7789 in Cassiopeia is a bright and richly populated cluster comprised of approximately 300 member stars which are evenly distributed and well detached from the background sky. This cluster lies at a distance of 7620 light - years away with an apparent diameter of 25 '. As indicated by the various red giants in the image, the cluster is advanced in age and which has been estimated to be approximately 1.6 billion years - old / Bridgeman Images
PIX4569005: Open cluster CR 399 in Little Fox - The Coathanger (CR 399) in Vulpecula - The Hanger cluster or Brocchi cluster is not a true cluster of stars but an asterism in the constellation Little Fox. CR 399, Brocchi's Cluster, is also known as the “” Coathanger””. It is a distinctive asterism, but not a true star cluster. It is visible to the unaided eye off the head of Cygnus, the Swan in Vulpecula, and resolved into its namesake shape in a telescope or pair of binoculars / Bridgeman Images
TEC4561138: Lile Toyota (Les Iles du Reel), in the French pavilion of the Aichi World Exposition in Japan, 2005. Toyota Island is a four-metre cube. Photographs of the Toyota site in Valenciennes are projected on three sides, taken by Stephane Couturier. In parallel, we will see photographs taken by the factory workers illustrating their business but also their everyday lives. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4570101: Comete Hyakutake - Comet Hyakutake - Comete Hyakutake March 1996. This is the spectacular Comet Hyakutake as it passed closest to Earth in March of 1996. The solid portion or nucleus of a comet is made up of ice, frozen gases, dust and small rock. And it is relatively small - less than 15 miles in diameter. As its orbit takes it closer to the sun, this frozen mass begins to melt and a coma, which is a gaseous cloud, develops around the nucleus. This coma can grow to be tens of thousands of miles in diameter. Finally a tail also develops which can become millions of miles long. This color photo reveals the blue - green glow around the coma, the yellow - red shroud of a dust tail, and the many long blue streamers of the ion tail / Bridgeman Images
PIX4570260: Core of the Hartley 2 comet seen by the Epoxi probe - Comet Hartley 2 nucleus seen by Deep impact spacecraft - Composite of images of the nucleus of the Hartley 2 comet obtained on November 4, 2010 during its approach by the Epoxi probe (Deep Impact). The core is 2 km long. This image montage shows comet Hartley 2 as NASA'S EPOXI mission approached and flew under the comet. The images progress in time clockwise, starting at the top left. The image was taken by Epoxi's Medium - Resolution Instrument on Nov. 4, 2010. The sun is to the right. The comet's nucleus, or main body, is approximately 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) long and 0.4 kilometers (0.25 miles) at the “” neck,””” or most narrow portion. Jets can be seen streaming out of the nucleus / Bridgeman Images
PIX4570311: Core of Comet 67P/Churyumov - Gerasimenkovu by the Rosetta probe - Comet 67P/Churyumov - Gerasimenko nucleus seen by Rosetta - Image of the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov - Gerasimenko seen on November 22, 2014 by the Rosetta probe at a distance of 30 km. OSIRIS wide - angle camera image acquired on 22 November 2014 from a distance of 30 km from Comet 67P/Churyumov - Gerasimenko. The image resolution is 2.8 m/pixel. The nucleus is deliberately overexposed in order to reveal the faint jets of activity / Bridgeman Images
PIX4569237: La Meridienne de l'Hotel Chenizot - Paris - Sundial in Paris: This meridian dates back to 1730. It indicates noon, as well as the shifts and half hours before and after. A Meridian is based on the well-known principle of the sundial, but only preys to determine the exact time of noon (Meridian = half of the day). 51 Rue Saint-Louis, 75004 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4569251: Sundial of the house of Cuvier (Paris 5e) - Sundial in Paris: On the facade of the old house of Cuvier, today one of the entrance to the Jardin des Plantes, you can see a beautiful dial declinating from the afternoon. The style is missing. Sundial located on the front of the Cuvier's house (75005), one of the entrance of the Jardin des Plantes / Bridgeman Images
PIX4569354: La Meridienne de la Pitie-Salpetriere - Paris - Sundial in Paris - Hospital de la Pitie-Salpetiere: Outside the chapel of the Pitie-Salpetiere Hospital (75013), a Meridian is visible just above the door. It has the motto: Ultima Latet (the last one is hidden). This simple Meridian features the 11 am, 12 pm and 1 pm hour lines, plus the half-hours on either side of noon. Portions of daytime arches are traced and marked by the signs of the Zodiac / Bridgeman Images
PIX4570600: McNaught comet seen on January 17, 2007 - Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1) 17 Jan 2007 - View of McNaught comet obtained on January 17, 2007 at dusk, at 22:34 in Queenstown, New Zealand. View of the Comet McNaught on 17 Jan 2007 22:34:03, over Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand / Bridgeman Images