PIX4610141: Spiral galaxy NGC 2683 in Lynx - Spiral galaxy NGC 2683 in Lynx - Spiral galaxy NGC 2683 distant about 16 million years - light in the constellation Lynx. Image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Spiral galaxy NGC 2683 located 16 million years away in the constellation of Lynx. Image taken by the Hubble space telescope (HST) / Bridgeman Images

MDA4610164: Subdivisions and peri-urban areas in Guyancourt (Les Yvelines)., Denance, Michel / Bridgeman Images

PIX4610180: Galaxy NGC 2798 in the Lynx - Arp 283 - Arp 283 is a pair of galaxies (NGC 2798, bottom, and NGC 2799 above) in interaction. These galaxies are located about 90 million light years away from Earth. Arp 283 consists of two interacting galaxies, NGC 2798 bottom and NGC 2799. It does appear the interaction has created huge tidal plumes on NGC 2798 and has warped the disk of NGC 2799 into a sort arc. NGC 2798 is classed as a barred spiral. NGC 2799 is seen almost edge on. Most sources consider it a SB galaxy, that is a barred spiral, but a few consider it as Sc. The pair appear to be about 90 million light - years away / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4610192: Portrait of Marechal Comte Jean-Mathieu Philibert Serurier (1742-1819), 18th century (engraving), French School, (18th century) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4610262: The Crowning with Thorns. Detail. (oil on canvas, 17th century), Procaccini, Giulio Cesare (1574-1625) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4610297: Galaxies M81 and M82 in the Great Bear - Galaxies M81 and M82 in Ursa major - M81 (left) is a spiral galaxy. M82 (right) an irregular galaxy. Separated for about 150,000 light years, these two galaxies belong to the galaxy cluster closest to our local group. These galaxies are approximately 12 million light years away from Earth. M81, seen here at left, is a grand design spiral galaxy that forms a physical pair with irregular galaxy M82. They are separated by 150,000 light years at a distance of 12 million light years. This galaxy group, consisting of M81, M82, NGC 3077 and NGC 2976, is the nearest galaxy group to our own local group of galaxies that contains the Milky Way, Magellanic Clouds, M33, and the M31 - M32 - M110 system. This galaxy group, consisting of M81, M82, NGC 3077 and NGC 2976, is the nearest galaxy group to our own local group of galaxies that contains the Milky Way, Magellanic Clouds, M33, and the M31 - M32 - M110 system / Bridgeman Images

PIX4610356: Galaxies M81 and M82 in the Great Bear - Galaxies M81 and M82 in Ursa Major: M81 (left) is a spiral galaxy. M82 (right) an irregular galaxy. Separate about 150,000 light years, these two galaxies belong to the galaxy cluster closest to our local group. These galaxies are approximately 12 million light years away from Earth. - M81, seen here at left, is a grand design spiral galaxy that forms a physical pair with irregular galaxy M82. They are separated by 150,000 light years at a distance of 12 million light years / Bridgeman Images

TEC4584283: Pekin, China. Photograph 01/10/02. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4584292: Detail of the sculpted groups supporting the Chair made by Giovanni Pisano (1248-1314): the Church feeds her children (Detail of the sculptures supporting the marble pulpit, Church feeds her children) 1302-1311 Cathedrale de Pisa (Duomo di Pisa), Italy, Pisano, Giovanni (c.1245-p.1314) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4584370: L'espace Peinture d'Antoine Chintreuil (1814, 1873) 1869 (oil on canvas), Chintreuil, Antoine (1814-73) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4584394: Artist view of a black hole supermasi / Bridgeman Images

TEC4584401: Panoramic view of Pekin from Pekin Television Tower (China). / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4584413: L'enfant au hoop, 1863 (oil on canvas), Bertou, Jean (1827-85) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4584494: View of Beihai Park towards the Forbidden City in Pekin (China). / Bridgeman Images

TEC4584511: One of the Entracies of the Forbidden City in PPEkin, China. / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4584522: Faience dish made by Francesco Xanto Aveli representing the Parnassus, Realize in Urbino, 1530 (ceramic), Xanto Avelli, Francesco (c.1487-c.1542) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4610450: Metier: A doctor, in "New assembly of the manouvries habilles", 18th century (engraving), Engelbrecht, Martin (1684-1756) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4610482: View of Salisbury Cathedral, South West Coast, 1820 (oil on canvas), Constable, John (1776-1837) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4610489: Galaxies NGC 3169, NGC 3166, NGC 3165 in the Sextant - Galaxies NGC 3169, NGC 3166, NGC 3165 in Sextans - Group of spiral galaxies located about 60 million light years away from Earth. On the left is the galaxy NGC 3169, in the center is the galaxy NGC 3166, in the bottom right is the galaxy NGC 3165. Group of spiral galaxies at about 60 million light years away. Left is NGC 3169, center is NGC 3166, bottom right, NGC 3165 / Bridgeman Images

LRI4610595: Landscape, circa 1900 (Oil on canvas), Renoir, Pierre Auguste (1841-1919) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4610606: Barree spiral galaxy M95 in the Lion - Barred spiral galaxy M95 in Leo - M95 (NGC 3351), is a barree spiral of type SBB. It belongs to the Leo I galaxy group, also known as the M96 group. It also contains M96, M105 and a number of weaker galaxies. This galaxy is located about 38 million light years away from Earth. Image obtained with a telescope of 80 cm, composite of several poses. The SBB barred spiral galaxy M95, is a member of the Leo I galaxy grouping, which includes M96 and M105 as well as various other galaxies, all at a distance of about 37 million light - years / Bridgeman Images

PIX4610758: Spiral Galaxy NGC 3486 in the Little Lion - Spiral galaxy NGC 3486 in Leo Mino / Bridgeman Images

LRI4610769: The punishment of love (oil on canvas, 1706-1707), Ricci, Sebastiano (1658-1734) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4610817: The four elements. The Earth (Detail left), 1641 (oil on canvas), Deruet, Claude (1588-1660) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4587192: Cat music, Original wood board for engraving, 1702 (wood), French School, (18th century) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4643591: Bepicolombo will be a mission to explore the planet Mercury, carried out jointly by the Japanese Space Agency and the European Space Agency. Its launch is scheduled in October 2018, to reach Mercure in 2025. Two probes form the Bepicolombo mission, the Mercury Planet Orbiter (DFO), which will perform a complete mapping of the surface of Mercury and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), which will study the Mercurian magnetosphere. Here, the Mercury Planet Orbiter (DFO) orbiting Mercury. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4587329: Housing in Bergschenhoek in the Netherlands. Photography 10/05/04. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4587359: Conjunction Venus Jupiter - Jupiter and Venus conjunction - Venus and Jupiter observed at dawn. 2 February 2008 (Brittany) Morning of Feb 2, 2008, Brittany, France / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4587387: Wine drinkers once said the poet Alexis Piron at table with his friends Jean Joseph Vade and Charles Colle, 18th century (oil on canvas), Antreau, Jacques (1657-1745) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4587428: The Return of Proserpine of the Underworld, 2nd-3rd century (fresco), Roman, (2nd-3rd century) / Bridgeman Images

LBY4643716: The MK2 bibliotheque et la bibliotheque nationale de France à Paris 75013. Architects Jean Michel Wilmotte and Dominique Perrault., Perrault, Dominique (b.1953) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4587468: Conjunction Venus Jupiter - Jupiter-Venus conjunction - Venus (the brightest) and Jupiter seen above the horizon. Riviere Odet, Brittany. 24/11/2008 Venus (the brightest) with Jupiter seen above the horizon. Odet river, Brittany. November 24, 2008 / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4643734: Leda and the Swan Leda and the god Zeus transforms into a swan to approach him, 18th century (oil on canvas), Natoire, Charles Joseph (1700-77) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4643767: The New Horizons probe near 2014 MU69 - Artist's View - New Horizons and 2014 MU69 (binary) - Artwork: Artist's view of the New Horizons probe near the small object of Kuiper 2014 MU69. Observations in 2017 show that 2014 MU69 would be either a binary object (model favors), in contact or not, or a single object lengthens. Speculative illustration of Nasa's New Horizons interplanetary probe flying by classical Kuiper belt object (486958) 2014 MU69, about 3 billion miles from the Earth, on 1 January 2019. 2014 MU69 is either a single elongated object about 30 miles long, or two smaller objects orbiting very closely together, maybe even touching; this image illustrates the latter. New Horizons is about the size and shape of a grand piano and weighed 1,054 pounds at launch. The high-gain dish antenna is about 7 feet in diameter and is employed for communication with the Earth / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4644344: Portrait of the dolphin Louis XVII (1785- 1795). Miniature, 18th century (painting on ivory), Kucharski, Alexandre (1741-1819) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644364: Satellite Sentinel-2 - Artist's view: Artist's view of the European Sentinel-2 satellite orbiting the Earth. This Earth observation satellite of the European programme Copernicus observes vegetation with a resolution of 10 m to 60 m, in thirteen spectral bands ranging from visible to infrared. Sentinel-2A was launched on 23 June 2015 and Sentinel-2B will be launched in 2016 - Sentinel-2 carries a high-resolution multispectral optical imager to monitor changes in vegetation for Europe's environmental monitoring Copernicus programme. This mission offers key information to optimise crop yield, thus helping to improve food security. Data can be used to measure leaf area index, leaf chlorophyll and leaf water content to monitor plant growth, which is particularly important during the growing season. It will be used to generate land-cover maps, to track changes in the way land is being used and to monitor the world's forests. In addition, Sentinel-2 provides information on pollution in lakes and coastal waters. Images of floods, volcanic eruptions and landslides are also offered to help respond to disasters and for humanitarian relief efforts / Bridgeman Images