TEC4609241: The port of Bastia (Haute Corsica). / Bridgeman Images

TEC4609262: Bastia (Haute Corsica). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4609403: Spiral galaxy M74 in Pisces - Spiral galaxy M74 in Pisces - Image of the spiral galaxy M74 (NGC 628). This galaxy is about 80,000 light years and is 30 million light years apart. Viewed face on, as it appeared about 30 million years ago, M74 is considered to be one of the most photogenic spiral galaxies in the sky. The galaxy is rich in young bright blue stars and glowing red regions of dust and molecular hydrogen where new stars are being created. M74, however, is quite camera shy - it has a low surface brightness that makes it challenging for both visual observers and astrophotographers to see it's entire form. The Chandra X - Ray observatory, discovered M74 to be the home of a super massive black hole, tucked away in one of it's outer arms. This black hole is one of the largest ever discovered and has the mass of over 10,000 suns. Thirty six, fifteen minute photographs were combined to create this picture, with a total exposure time of almost nine hours. The images were taken with a 20 inch Ritchey - Chretien telescope and an eleven mega - pixel camera at f/8 from high in the south central mountains of New Mexico / Bridgeman Images

PIX4630334: The Solar-Illustration System - Mars, Earth and Moon, Venus, Mercury and the Sun / Bridgeman Images

PIX4630355: La formation du système solaire - Vue d'artiste - Artist's impression of the development of the Solar System - Vue d'artiste de planete en formation dans le disque de gaz et de dusts (disque protoplanetaire) autour de son toile. This artist's impression shows four stages of the development of the inner Solar System over a period of almost five billion years. The top panel shows the earliest stage where the debris disc around the Sun was composed of gas and tiny particles, typically less than one millimetre across. At the second stage the particles have formed large clumps, roughly 100 kilometers across and, similar to the asteroid Lutetia. These bodies in turn formed the rocky planets including the Earth, shown in the third panel down. Over the subsequent four billion years the surface of the Earth developed to what we know now under the influence of meteor bombardment that delivered volatile materials including water, and the evolution of life on its surface / Bridgeman Images

PIX4630617: Impact Crater Gosses Bluff, Australia - Impact Crater Gosses Bluff, Australia, seen by the International Space Station on February 6, 2007. Its diameter is 5 km; it would have been formed about 142 million years ago. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4632660: Life on Earth: the Sun and Comets - Life on Earth: Sun and Comets - All living organisms on Earth are exclusively left amino acids. The origin of life homochiralite, the asymmetry present in amine acids, could be derived from solar radiation distruding the right amino acids accumulated on comets during the formation of the solar system. Life on Earth is made of left handed amino acids, almost exclusively. The origin of biomolecular homochirality could come from the sun light destroying right handed amino acids in comets during the formation of solar system / Bridgeman Images

OMG4630737: Dubai Air Metro (UAE). Photo 17/12/09. / Bridgeman Images

OMG4630844: A construction site in the financial district (DIFC) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Photography 17/12/09. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4633060: The Earth in a period of glaciation - Artist view - Next Ice Age - Artist view - The Statue of Liberty caught in the ice. Statue of Liberty covered with ice / Bridgeman Images

PIX4634433: Large structures - Artist's view of large structures, these gas filaments in which clusters of galaxies are formed / Bridgeman Images

PIX4610501: Spiral galaxy NGC 3184 in the Great Bear - Spiral galaxy NGC 3184 in Ursa Majo / Bridgeman Images

PIX4610684: Spiral galaxy NGC 3370 in the Lion - Spiral galaxy NGC 3370 in Leo - The spiral galaxy NGC 3370 is located about 100 million years away - light from Earth. In November 1994, light emitting from a supernova type Ia, SN 1994ae, part of this galaxy, reached Earth. In this image taken by the Hubble space telescope in May 2003, this supernova is no longer detectable. On the other hand, the telescope was able to observe in this galaxy cepheides, variable stars used to accurately measure distances in the universe and calculate the rate of expansion of the universe. Many galaxies are visible in the background. The majestic dusty spiral, NGC 3370, looms in the foreground in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Recent observations taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys show intricate spiral arm structure spotted with hot areas of new star formation. In November 1994, the light of a supernova in nearby NGC 3370 reached Earth. This stellar outburst briefly outshone all of the tens of billions of other stars in its galaxy. Although supernovae are common, with one exploding every few seconds somewhere in the universe, this one was special. Designated SN 1994ae, this supernova was one of the nearest and best observed supernovae since the advent of modern, digital detectors. It resides 98 million light - years (30 megaparsecs) from Earth. The supernova was also a member of a special subclass of supernovae, the type Ia, the best tool astronomers have to chart the growth rate of the expanding universe. Other, fainter stars of known brightness can be observed in the same galaxy. These stellar “” standard candles”” are the Cepheid variable stars, which vary regularly in brightness with periods that are directly related to their intrinsic brightness, and thus allow the distance to the galaxy””” and the supernova””” to be determined directly / Bridgeman Images

PIX4610701: Galaxies M105, NGC 3384 and NGC 3389 in the Lion - Galaxies M105, NGC 3384 and NGC 3389 in Leo - These galaxies belong to the group of Leo 1 galaxies. Below is the elliptical galaxy M105, type E1, located about 40 million years ago - light from Earth; above, NGC 3384, at the top NGC 3389, a galaxy in the background. M105 (bottom) is a type E1 elliptical galaxy and the brightest member of the Leo I galaxy grouping. The entire group is about 40 million light - years away. Also visble are galaxies NGC 3384 (above and right of center), which is part of the Leo I group, and NGC 3389 (top left), which is a more distant background galaxy / Bridgeman Images

PIX4610775: Spiral galaxy NGC 3621 in Hydra - Galaxy NGC 3621 in Hydra - The spiral galaxy NGC 3621 is located about 22 million light years away from Earth in the southern constellation of Hydra. Image obtained from the 2.2 meter MPG/ESO telescope of the La Silla Observatory. Spiral galaxy NGC 3621 is located in the southern constellation Hydra at 22 million light years from the sun. Image taken with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at Eso's La Silla Observatory in Chile. This galaxy appears to be a fine example of a classical spiral but it is in fact rather unusual: it does not have a central bulge and is therefore described as a pure - disc galaxy / Bridgeman Images

PIX4610863: Spiral Galaxy NGC 3628 in the Lion - NGC 3628 spiral galaxy in Leo - NGC 3628 is a spiral galaxy seen by the slice located at a distance of about 35 million years - light. With its neighbors M65 and M66, it forms a remarkable triplet of galaxies, called the Lion Triplet or the M66 Group. Image obtained with a 400 mm telescope, two hours of installation through different filters. NGC 3628 is an edge - on sipral galaxy about 35 Mly away. She forms the remarkable Leo triplet with its neighbors M65 and M66 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4611111: Young stars in the dwarf galaxy NGC 4163 - Young stars in dwarf galaxy NGC 4163 - NGC 4163 is an irregular dwarf galaxy located about 10 million years ago - light in the constellation Hunting Dogs / Bridgeman Images

PIX4631771: Earth by MODIS 2004 - The Earth seen by MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) aboard the TERRA satellite in 2004 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4631786: Earth: north pole by satellite - Image of the Earth recomposed from different satellite images obtained on 21 September 2005 for the north pole (the extent of ice is at its minimum), in 2002 for the cloud cover and in September 2004 for vegetation / Bridgeman Images

LBY4631848: Vals in Switzerland. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4634466: Galaxies and large structures - Artist's view / Bridgeman Images

PIX4634484: Large structures of the universe - Zoom in the great structures of the universe to the local cluster and the cluster of the Virgin / Bridgeman Images

TEC4634500: The city of Quimper crossed by the river Odet (Brittany). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4631875: Earth with starry sky - Earth with starry sky - Image of the Earth recomposed from different satellite images. The extent of the ice at the north pole dates from September 15, 2008. A star background has been added. Composite image obtained with data collected from Terra and Aqua satellites. The image of sea ice in north pole was taken on September 15 2008. A starry sky background was added / Bridgeman Images

TEC4634588: The city of Quimper in Brittany, Cathedrale Saint Corentin (Saint Corentin). Photography 11/08/09. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4634765: The city of Algiers Algiers - Algeria - / Bridgeman Images

TEC4632545: Evian les Bains (Haute Savoie). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4633583: Aurora and Fireball in Norway - A -8-magnitude car crosses the sky. Queen - Lofoten Islands. September 11, 2016. A very bright meteor (-8 magnitude) streaks past the curtains of the Aurora Borealis in Reine, Lofoten, Norway. September 11, 2016 / Bridgeman Images

ITR4602406: La Maison de Victor Hugo, in the Hotel Rohan-Guemenee (Rohan Guemenee), 6 place des Vosges, Paris 75004. Architecture by Isaac Arnaud, 1605. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4625707: Artist's view of the planet Saturn / Bridgeman Images

TEC4602580: Stained glass windows of the Cathedrale de Chartres (Eure and Loire). Built partly from 1145, and rebuilt in twenty-six years after the fire of 1194, it is the monument par excellence of French Gothic art. Its vast nave of the purest ogival style, its porches with admirable mid-12th century sculptures, its shimmering set of stained glass windows from the 12th and 13th centuries make it an exceptional masterpiece and remarkably well preserved. The Cathedrale de Chartres has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. Photography 30/06/05. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4626499: Crab Nebula seen in different wavelength - The Crab Nebula in multi wavelength: M1, the Crab Nebula, is the rest of a supernova that exploded on July 4, 1054. It is located about 6500 light years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. At the heart of this nebula is a pulsar. To obtain this photo, different observatories and telescopes combined their observations; the VLA provided the radio image (in red), the Spitzer telescope the infrared image (in yellow), the Hubble telescope for the visible part (here in green), XMM-Newton the ultraviolet image (in blue) and the Chandra telescope for X-ray data (purple). The pulsar is the bright spot in the center of the image. The unusual image was produced by combining data from telescopes spanning almost the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to X-rays. The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) provided information about the nebula gathered in the radio regime (colored in red). Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope took images in the infrared (yellow). The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provided the images made in optical wavelengths (colored in green). ESA's XMM-Newton telescope observed the Crab Nebula in the ultraviolet (blue) and Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory provided the data for X-ray radiation (purple). The Crab Nebula, located 6500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Taurus, is the result of a supernova explosion which was observed by Chinese and other astronomers in 1054. At its centre is a pulsar: a super-dense neutron star, spinning once every 33 milliseconds, shooting out rotating light-like beams of radio waves and visible light. Surrounding the pulsar lies a mix of material; some of it was originally expelled from the star before it went supernova, and the rest was ejected during the explosion itself. Fast-moving winds of particles fly off from the neutron star, energising the dust and gas around it. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4626743: A plane passes by the Sun - A plane in front of the Sun - A plane passes by the solar disk. Image obtained by an astronomical bezel ed 102/1320 and an eos 60d cannon. A plane is silhouetted in front of the Sun / Bridgeman Images

PIX4626906: Solar protuberance seen in ultraviolet by SOHO on 25 - 10 - 2002 - A protuberance, a plasma cloud, escapes from the Sun / Bridgeman Images

PIX4626948: Le Soleil 12/04/2003 seen by SOHO - Le Soleil 12/04/2003 seen by SOHO - Le Soleil 12/04/2003 seen by SOHO in the band centree on 284 A, the ray emailed by the ion Fe X / Bridgeman Images

PIX4626965: The Sun seen in ultraviolet by SOHO 01 - 07 - 2002 - A protuberance, a plasma cloud, escapes from the Sun. White regions are the hottest and most active areas / Bridgeman Images