PIX4584017: Inhabited mission to an asteroid - Artist's view - Asteroid Lander prepares for touchdown - A living spaceship lands on the surface of an asteroid. A manned Asteroid Lander descends towards the rugged and cratered surface of an ancient asteroid. Orbiting the asteroid on the upper left is a Deep Space Vehicle (DSV) and Extended Stay Module (ESM) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605586: Pioneer plate placed on Pioneer 10 - Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 probes have embarked on a plate, called the Pioneer plate, containing a message intended for potential aliens. On this engraved metal plate are depicted a naked man and woman, the location of our Sun as well as 14 pulsars, the trajectory of the probe in the solar system... Pioneer 10 was launched on 3 March 1972 with as its first destination, the Jupiter planet, which it flew over on 3 December 1973; it was the first space probe to approach this planet; it was also the first space probe to leave the solar system. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605693: Pioneer Venus orbiter - Artist view - Pioneer Venus orbiter - Artist view - The Pioneer Venus Project was a NASA space exploration mission to Venus launched in 1978. It consisted of two separate probes, one to study Venus from its orbit (Pioneer Venus Orbiter) and the other to analyze the atmosphere of the planet through 4 atmospheric probes (Pioneer Venus Multiprobe). An artist concept of the orbiter approaching Venus is shown here / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605992: Huygens probe en route to Titan. - Artist's view of the Cassini probe during the separation of the European module Huygens on 25 December 2004. Huygens landed on the Titan satellite on 14 January 2005. The Cassini-Huygens probe was launched on 15 October 1997 and has been placed in orbit around Saturn since 1 July 200 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4584774: Stellar black hole - Artist view - Stellar black hole - Artist view - A stellar black hole is born from the gravitational collapse of a massive star. The stellar black holes have a mass of some solar masses. A black hole is a region of space whose gravitation is so strong that it will prevent any form of material or radiation from escaping. A stellar black hole is a black hole formed by the gravitational collapse of a massive star; it is also a region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing can escape / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606133: SMART Probe - 1 - Artist View - SMART Probe - 1 - Artist View - SMART - 1 (Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology) is a European probe that maps the Moon and tests new technologies such as ion propulsion. The mission took place from 27 September 2003 to 3 September 2006 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606162: LCROSS Probe - Artist View - LCROSS - Artist view - LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) is a space probe of NASA whose aim is to discover the presence of water ice in a crater perpetually in the shade of the Sun at the southern pole of the Moon. LCROSS must analyze the impact created by the top floor of its Atlas 5 launcher precipitates in this crater. LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) should be launched in June 2009 with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) payload aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. LCROSS will seek a definitive answer about the presence of water ice at the lunar south pole using the spent second stage Atlas Centaur rocket that will impact on the moon's surface / Bridgeman Images
PIX4585098: Meridienne de l'église Saint Eustache (Paris 1er) - Noon Mark on Church Saint Eustache (Paris 1er) - Located on the meridional facade of the church, under the sundial of the eardrum, this Meridian no longer works due to the disappearance of the disc that served as her style / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606234: Venus Express Probe - Artist's View - Venus Express spacecraft - Artwork - The European Venus Express probe was launched on 9 November 2005 and has been placed in orbit around Venus since 11 April 2006. The european spacecraft Venus Express has been launched from Baikonur in november 2005 and orbits the planet Venus since april 11 2006 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606522: Mars Pathfinder Probe - View of the Mars Pathfinder probe and its small Sojourner rover at the Kennedy space center in October 1996. The probe was launched on 4 December 1996 and landed on March 4 July 1997 in Ares Vallis. Teleguide from Earth, the Sojourner rover was the first robot to survey Martian soil. He explored about 250 m2 of the surface of Mars and returned 550 photographs. Contact was definitively lost with the Mars Pathfinder probe on 27 September 1997 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609518: Galaxy NGC 891 in Andromede - Edge - on spiral galaxy NGC 891 in Andromeda - Spiral galaxy seen by the slice located at a distance of 10 million years - light. Composite image (Subaru, HST and a 90 cm telescope). Located about 10 million light years from Earth, NGC 891 is one of the most photographed edge - on spiral galaxies in the northern skies. Composite Image made from Three Data Sources: 8.2 Meter Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Space Telescope, West Mountain Observatory, BYU / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609732: Elliptical galaxy NGC 1275 in Persee - Elliptical galaxy NGC 1275 in Perseus - View of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1275 located 230 million years ago - light in the center of the cluster of Persee galaxies. This image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006 reveals filamentary structures surrounding the galaxy. These gas filaments would come from the interaction between the cold gas of the center of the galaxy or resides a supermassive black hole and the warmer gas present in the galaxy cluster. This Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy NGC 1275 reveals the fine, thread - like filamentary structures in the gas surrounding the galaxy. The red filaments are composed of cool gas being suspended by a magnetic field, and are surrounded by the 100 - million - degree Fahrenheit hot gas in the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster. The filaments are dramatic markers of the feedback process through which energy is transferred from the central massive black hole to the surrounding gas. The filaments originate when cool gas is transported from the center of the galaxy by radio bubbles that rise in the hot interstellar gas. At a distance of 230 million light - years, NGC 1275 is one of the closest giant elliptical galaxies and lies at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies. The galaxy was photographed in July and August 2006 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys in three color filters / Bridgeman Images