PIX4673069: Tikal - Temple I and the constellation Orion - Tikal - Temple I and Orion constellation - Temple I or Temple of Ah Cacao or Temple of the Great Jaguar was built around 734, and rises to 47 metres in height. Tikal (or Tik'al according to modern Mayan spelling) is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centers of the Mayan precolombian civilization. Located in what is now northern Guatemala, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. Temple I (also known as the Temple of Ah Cacao or Temple of the Great Jaguar) is a funerary pyramid dedicated to Jasaw Chan K'awil, who was entombed in the structure in AD 734, the pyramid was completed around 740 - 750. The temple rises 47 meters (154 ft) high. Tikal (or Tik'al according to the modern Mayan orthography) is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centres of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Peten Basin in what is now northern Guatemala. In 1979 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site / Bridgeman Images
PIX4673314: Chesapeake Bay - USA - Chesapeake Bay seen from space - Chesapeake Bay on the eastern coast of the United States houses an impact crater about 80 km in diameter buried more than 300 metres deep. This crater, dating back to 35.5 million years, was discovered in 1983. Mosaic of six photographs obtained by the Landsat-5 satellite between 2009 and 2011. In 1983 the largest impact crater of the United states of America has been discovered there. With a diameter of 80 km, this 35.5 million year - old crater is buried more than 300 meters beneath the lower part of the bay. Mosaic of six Landsat 5 images collected in July 2009 and 2011.The Washington D.C. - Baltimore - Philadelphia - New York City corridor can be clearly seen (look for silvery purple) as can the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and the coastal Atlantic barrier islands from Fishermans Island, Virginia to Sandy Hook, New Jersey / Bridgeman Images
PIX4673489: Lake Powell - Utah: Lake Powell, Utah, USA, seen from the International Space Station (ISS) on September 6, 2016. This panorama, photographed by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, shows almost the full length of Lake Powell, the reservoir on the Colorado River in southern Utah and northern Arizona. Note south is at the top left of the image. Image acquired on September 6, 2016. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4674038: Hurricane Felix seen since ISS 09/2007 - Hurricane Felix seen over Cuba by members of Expedition 15 of the International Space Station. 3 September 2007. This view of Hurricane Felix was taken from the Earth - orbiting International Space Station (ISS) by an Expedition 15 crewmember using a digital still camera equipped with a 28 - 70 mm lens set at 32 mm focal length on Sept. 3, 2007 at 11:39:56 GMT. The ISS was located at the nadir point of 20.4 degrees north latitude and 80.4 degrees west longitude, over Pickle Bank, the waters between Grand Cayman Island and Cuba. At approximately noon GMT, Hurricane Felix was near 14.2 degrees north latitude and 76.9 degrees west longitude, about 260 miles (425 kilometers) south of Kingston Jamaica, and 425 miles (685 kilometers) east of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Nicaragua/Honduras border, moving west at 21 miles per hour (33 kilometers per hour). The sustained winds were 165 miles per hour with higher gusts making it a category 5 on the Saffir - Simpson scale / Bridgeman Images
PIX4674128: Hurricane Ike seen by satellite 09/2008 - Hurricane Ike above Cuba 09/2008 - Hurricane Ike seen over Cuba on 7 September 2008. Image obtained by the American satellite Aqua. Just an hour and a half after this image of Hurricane Ike was captured by the MODIS on NASA's Aqua satellite on September 7, 2008, the National Hurricane Center released its 2:00 p.m. EDT public advisory, warning residents of Cuba and other Caribbean islands, as well as the Florida Keys, that Ike was a dangerous Category 4 hurricane, with winds near 135 mph (215 kilometers per hour), with higher gusts. The image shows Ike approaching eastern Cuba, the eye just west of Great Inagua Island (one of the Turks and Caicos Islands). According to later advisories, Ike made landfall as a Category 3 storm, with winds around 125 miles per hour. Heavy rains were predicted to cause deadly floods and mudslides in mountainous parts of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and Cuba / Bridgeman Images
PIX4674309: Hurricane Hugo seen by satellite - Hurricane Hugo seen by satellite - Perspective view of Hurricane Hugo on September 21, 1989. Image obtained from the GOES-7 satellite. Perspective view of Hurricane Hugo on 21 September 1989 at 14:44 EDT by GOES - 7 (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites), as the hurricane approaches Charleston, South Carolina. See also our full - earth view of Hugo. Image produced by F. Hasler, K. Palaniappan, M. Manyin, and H. Pierce (NASA/Goddard) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4667159: Europe at night - 2012 - Europe by night - 2012: View of Europe at night consisting of images taken by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. This image of Europe at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4668299: The Oriental Park of Maulevrier is a Japanese garden located in Maulevrier, Maine-et-Loire, France. With 29 hectares it is today the largest Japanese garden in Europe. Organizing around an artificial lake fed by the Monk that crosses it from east to west, it contains about 300 plants, including azalees, camelias, rhododendrons, Japanese Maple, ginkgo biloba and others, with elements of traditional decoration of Japanese gardens such as red porticos (torii), stone lanterns (T r), or replica of a Khmer Buddhist temple. The designer of this space is the Parisian architect Alexandre Marcel (1860-1928), designer of the Cambodia pavilion at the 1900 Universal Exhibition - The Parc Oriental de Maulevrier is the largest Japanese garden in France. It is located in Maulevrier, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. - The park was created between 1899-1913 on the grounds of Chateau Colbert by architect Alexandre Marcel (1860-1928), designer of the Cambodia pavilion at the Exposition Universelle (1900) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4668694: Abbey of Fontevraud - Maine-et-Loire - Abbey of Fontevraud - Maine-et-Loire: The Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fontevraud was founded by Robert d'Arbrissel in 1101. Located 15 km from Saumur in the Maine-et-Loire, it was classified as a historical monument in 1840 and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000 with the entire cultural site of the Loire Valley. The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Saumur, in Anjou, France. It was founded in 1101 by Robert of Arbrissel. The complex of monastic buildings served as a prison from 1804 to 1963 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4636032: Milky way all around the horizon and Gegenschein - Fisheye view of the southern sky. The lactee path blends with the horizon line. In the sky, the three brightest galaxies visible on Earth: the two galaxies of the Magellan Cloud, and opposite it towards the right middle of the image, the galaxy of Andromede. Crossing the image on the right, the gegenschein, the blade glow made up of dust reflecting the light of the sun, observable only in a dense sky of any parasite light. The bright spot near the center of the image is Jupiter Planet. The following image was taken at new Moon (No Moon light), middle of the night (minimum zodiacal light effect), in the Atacama desert close to Paranal observatory (no light pollution). The chosen place for this picture has the particularity to be located at a latitude which value is close to the declination of the galactic southern pole. The picture was therefore also taken when the galactic pole passes at zenith, ensuring that there is no Milky Way up in the sky. When all these conditions are met, being very close to what the “” darkest””” sky could be, the very faint Gegenschein becomes visible. Like the zodiacal light, the gegenschein is sunlight reflected by interplanetary dust. Most of this dust is orbiting the sun in about the ecliptic plane. The Gegenschein is clearly visible covering most of the right side of the picture. The Large (LMC) and Small (SMC) Magellanic clouds are visible to the left, Orion constellation with Barnard loop to the top, California Nebula and 'tiny' Andromeda galaxy to the right while the Milky Way is visible all around the image on the horizon line. Bright jupiter is visible near the center of the image and bright red Eta Carina Nebula is rising on the horizon line at the very left / Bridgeman Images