TEC4622321: Grande Mosquee de Paris, 2 bis place du Puits de l'Hermit. In a Moorish Hispano style with predominance of Maghreb influences in its interior decoration and its emerald tile roof reminiscent of the Alhambra. The 33-metre high minaret rises above the Muslim tower. Construction 1922-1926, architects Robert Fournez, Charles Heubes and Maurice Mantout. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4622327: Elephant tube nebula (VDB 142) in Cephee - The Elephant Trunk Nebula (VDB 142) in Cepheus - IC1396, VDB 142. Nebula located about 2700 years - light from Earth. The Elephant Trunk Nebula (IC 1396A) in Cepheus is part of the larger IC 1396 complex which spans a large area of the sky measuring 170 by 140 arc - minutes and is one of the brightest emission nebulae with a magnitude of 3.5. The western portion of IC 1396 contains the Elephant Trunk Nebula (IC 1396A) which is characterized with H - II emissions, dark lanes and globules as well as a small reflection nebula. The IC 1396 complex is technically a star cluster (aka Cr 439, Trumpler 37) owing to the presence of a developing open but loose cluster at the heart of this rich nebulosity. This open star cluster is comprised of 50 - 100 member stars which vary in brightness spanning an area of approximately 50 'in diameter and which are not very well detached from the background sky. This stellar nursery lies at a distance of 2,720 light - years away / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622389: Church of Notre Dame du Val de Grace in Paris. The church is the fruit of the wish of Queen Anne of Austria to raise a beautiful temple to God if he sent her a son. After twenty-three years of marriage, in 1638, the future Louis XIV was born, who laid the first stone on 1 April 1645 and the construction ended at the end of the 1660s with sculptural and pictorial decoration. The works were first entrusted to Mansart, to which Le Mercier was succeeded, having worked notably at the Hotel de St Aignan and the Bibliotheque of Mazarin, and then Le Muet, who attended Le Duc. In 1649, the disturbances of the Fronde led to a long interruption of work, which did not resume until 1655. Photography 10/08/98. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622455: 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
JSN4624932: The site of the Musee des Monuments Francais, Cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadero, Paris 16th. All the renovation and renovation works were entrusted to the architect Jean Francois Bodin, at the end of 2007. Photography 2003., Salmon, Jacqueline / Bridgeman Images
JSN4624961: The site of the Musee des Monuments Francais, Cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadero, Paris 16th. All the renovation and renovation works were entrusted to the architect Jean Francois Bodin, at the end of 2007. Photography 2003., Salmon, Jacqueline / Bridgeman Images
PIX4624339: Pluto seen by the New Horizons probe - Pluto seen by New Horizons - Pluto seen by the New Horizons probe on July 7, 2015 at a distance of 8 million km from the dwarf planet. In the early morning hours of July 8, 2015, mission scientists received this new view of Pluto - - the most detailed yet returned by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard New Horizons. The image was taken on July 7, when the NASA spacecraft was just under 5 million miles (8 million kilometers) from Pluto, and is the first to be received since the July 4 anomaly that sent the spacecraft into safe mode. This view is centered roughly on the area that will be seen close - up during New Horizons' July 14 closest approach. This side of Pluto is dominated by three broad regions of varying brightness. Most prominent are an elongated dark feature at the equator, informally known as “” the whale,”” and a large heart - shaped bright area measuring some 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) across on the right. Above those features is a polar region that is intermediate in brightness / Bridgeman Images