PIX4596644: Apollo 12: Lunar sample - View of Apollo 12 lunar sample - Lunar soil sample collected during the Apollo 12 mission. A close - up view of Apollo 12 lunar sample no. 12025, called Core Sample 1, and collected on the lunar surface, about 225 meters below the point where the Apollo 12 Lunar Module touched down. This core sample and others collected on the Apollo 12 mission differ from those collected by the Apollo 11 crewmen in the Sea of Tranquility in that the Apollo 12 core samples have easily recognizable stratigraphy and two coherent crust - like layers. This sample has dominantly fine - grained texture / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596664: Apollo 13: original crew - Apollo 13: original crew - Original crew Apollo 13, from left to right: James A. Lovell, Thomas K. Mattingly and Fred W. Haise. 11/12/1969. From left to right: James A. Lovell, Commander; Thomas K. Mattingly, Command Module pilot and Fred W. Haise, Lunar Module pilot. Dec 11 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596690: Apollo 12: A. Bean on the Moon - Apollo 12: A. Bean on the Moon - Alan L. Bean carries scientific instruments to be deployed on the Moon. 19/11/1969. Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot, traverses with the two sub packages of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) during the first Apollo 12 extravehicular activity (EVA). Bean deployed the ALSEP components 300 feet from the Lunar Module (LM). The LM and deployed erectable S - band antenna can be seen in the background. 19 Nov 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596736: Apollo 13: Saturn V rocket on its shooting pad - Apollo 13: Saturn V on launch pad at sunset - Fusee Saturn V/Apollo 13 on its shooting pad. 04/1970 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596752: Apollo 13: Saturn V rocket on his shooting pad - Apollo 13: Saturn V viewed from tower - Fusee Saturn V/Apollo 13 on his shooting pad / Bridgeman Images

OMG4596996: Hotel Crillon, Place de la Concorde, Paris 8th arrondissement. The building on the right was purchased in 1788 by the Count of Crillon. And it was not until 1907 that the Societe des department stores du Louvre overhauled the hotel to bring it into one of the most beautiful Parisian palaces. Architect Jacques Ange Gabriel (1698-1782), construction 1766-1775. / Bridgeman Images

OMG4597048: The Alexandre III Bridge in Paris. Tsar Alexander III of Russia (1845-1894) laid the first stone of the bridge in 1886, which was to be completed for the 1900 World Expo. One of the most beautiful bridges in Paris has a single-flight metal structure. / Bridgeman Images

OMG4597093: The Royal Village in Paris. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597271: Apollo 15: D. Scott on the Moon - Apollo 15: D. Scott on the Moon - David Scott at Station 8 (ALSEP) during the second extra vehicle exit (EVA - 2). 01/08/1971. David Scott at Station 8 (ALSEP) during EVA - 2. Aug 01 1971 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597355: Apollo 15: Lunar Jeep - july 1971 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4612937: Interacting galaxies Arp 81 - Interacting galaxies Arp 81 - Arp 81 is located about 300 million light years away from Earth in the constellation Dragon. This pair of interacting galaxies is composed of NGC 6621 on the left and NGC 6622 on the right. NGC 6621 is the largest of the two galaxies. The collision, seen here about 100 million years later, caused intense star flames. Image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope on 15 March 1999. NGC 6621/2 (VV 247, Arp 81) is a strongly interacting pair of galaxies, seen about 100 million years after their closest approach. It consists of NGC 6621 (to the left) and NGC 6622 (to the right). NGC 6621 is the larger of the two, and is a very disturbed spiral galaxy. The encounter has pulled a long tail out of NGC 6621 that has now wrapped behind its body. The collision has also triggered extensive star formation between the two galaxies. Scientists believe that Arp 81 has a richer collection of young massive star clusters than the notable Antennae galaxies (which are much closer than Arp 81). The pair is located in the constellation of Draco, approximately 300 million light - years away from Earth. Arp 81 is the 81st galaxy in ARP's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Image taken by the Hubble space telescope on March 15, 1999 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4613059: Spiral galaxy NGC 6946 in Cephee - Spiral galaxy NGC 6946 in Cepheus - Spiral galaxy NGC 6946 located about 10 million years ago - light in Cephee. NGC 6946 is a nearby spiral galaxy, located at 10 million light years from us / Bridgeman Images

PIX4613620: Interacting galaxies ESO 593 - 8 in Sagittarius - Interacting galaxies ESO 593 - 8 in Sagittarius - The galaxy ESO 593 - 8 is located about 650 million years away from Earth. It's a pair of interacting galaxies that will probably merge into a single galaxy. Regions of intense star formations appear in blue. Image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope on 19 March 2002. ESO 593 - 8 is an impressive pair of interacting galaxies with a feather - like galaxy crossing a companion galaxy. The two components will probably merge to form a single galaxy in the future. The pair is adorned with a number of bright blue star clusters. ESO 593 - 8 is located in the constellation of Sagittarius, the Archer, some 650 million light - years away from Earth. Image taken by the Hubble space telescope on march 19, 2002 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4613726: General view of Paris 19th arrondissement. / Bridgeman Images

ITR4582324: Avoriaz, Haute Savoie. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4582396: Supernova type 1a 1994D in galaxy NGC 4526 - Supernova 1994D in galaxy NGC 4526 - Supernova 1994D, visible as the bright spot on the lower left, occurred in the outskirts of disk galaxy NGC4526. Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae. In fact, the light emitted during the weeksafter its explosion caused it to be given the familiar designation of a Type Ia supernova. If all Type 1a supernovae have the same intrinsic brightness, then the dimmer a supernova appears, the farther away it must be. By calibrating a precise brightness - distance relation, astronomers are able to estimate not only the expansion rate of the universe (parameterized by the Hubble Constant), but also the geometry of the universe we live in (parameterized by Omega and Lambda). The large number and great distances to supernovae measured in 1998 have been interpreted as indicating that we live in a previously unexpected universe / Bridgeman Images

ITR4582460: Sestriere resort (1930) in summer (Italy). / Bridgeman Images

ITR4582483: Les Hauts Forts in Avoriaz (Savoie), architect Jacques Labro 1967. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4582580: Les Dentelles du Swan - Detail - NGC 6995 - Part to the south - east of the rest of the supernova des Dace du Swan situated about 1400 years - light from the Earth. Image obtained by the Oschin telescope of Mount Palomar through several filters and composed / Bridgeman Images

TEC4582757: Bonifacio in Corsica. Photography 15/05/07. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4582891: Remains of Supernova N49 dans la Dorade/HST - Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in a neighboring galaxy. Hubble's target was a supernova remnant within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby, small companion galaxy to the Milky Way visible from the southern hemisphere. Denoted N 49, or DEM L 190, this remnant is from a massive star that died in a supernova blast whose light would have reached Earth thousands of years ago. This filamentary material will eventually be recycled into building new generations of stars in the LMC. Our own Sun and planets are constructed from similar debris of supernovae that exploded in the Milky Way billions of years ago. This seemingly gentle structure also harbors a very powerful spinning neutron star that may be the central remnant from the initial blast. It is quite common for the core of an exploded supernova star to become a spinning neutron star (also called a pulsar - because of the regular pulses of energy from the rotational spin) after the immediate shedding of the star's outer layers. In the case of N 49, not only is the neutron star spinning at a rate of once every 8 seconds, it also has a super - strong magnetic field a thousand trillion times stronger than Earth's magnetic field. This places this star into the exclusive class of objects called “magnetars.”” On March 5, 1979, this neutron star displayed a historic gamma - ray burst episode that was detected by numerous Earth - orbiting satellites. Gamma rays have a million or more times the energy of visible light photons. The Earth's atmosphere protects us by blocking gamma rays that originate from outer space. The neutron star in N 49 has had several subsequent gamma - ray emissions, and is now recognized as a “” soft gamma - ray repeater.” These objects are a peculiar class of stars producing gamma rays / Bridgeman Images

PIX4582917: Remnants of the supernova Cassiopee A en X by Chandra - Object Description: Cas A is the remnant of a star that exploded about 300 years ago. The X - ray image shows an expanding shell of hot gas produced by the explosion. This gaseous shell is about 10 light years in diameter, and has a temperature of about 50 million degrees. Scale: Image is 6 arcmin on a side. Cassiopeia A: The 320 year old remnant of a massive star that exploded. Located in the constellation Cassiopeia, it is 10 light years across and 10,000 light years from Earth / Bridgeman Images

PIX4582960: Remains of the supernova Kepler in Ophiuchus - Nasa's three Great Observatories - - the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X - ray Observatory - joined forces to probe the expanding remains of a supernova, called Kepler's supernova remnant, first seen 400 years ago by sky watchers, including famous astronomer Johannes Kepler. The combined image unveils a bubble - shaped shroud of gas and dust that is 14 light - years wide and is expanding at 4 million miles per hour (2,000 kilometers per second). Observations from each telescope highlight distinct features of the supernova remnant, a fast - moving shell of iron - rich material from the exploded star, surrounded by an expanding shock wave that is sweeping up interstellar gas and dust. Each color in this image represents a different region of the electromagnetic spectrum, from X - rays to infrared light. The X - ray and infrared data cannot be seen with the human eye. By color - coding those data and combining them with Hubble's visible - light view, astronomers are presenting a more complete picture of the supernova remnant. Visible - light images from the Hubble telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys [colored yellow] reveal where the supernova shock wave is slamming into the densest regions of surrounding gas. The bright glowing knots are dense clumps from instabilities that form behind the shock wave. The Hubble data also show thin filaments of gas that look like rippled sheets seen edge - on. These filaments reveal where the shock wave is encountering lower - density, more uniform interstellar material. The Spitzer telescope shows microscopic dust particles [colored red] that have been heated by the supernova shock wave. The dust re - radiates the shock wave's energy as infrared light. The Spitzer data are brightest in the regions surrounding those seen in detail by the Hubble telescope. The Chandra X - ray data show regions of very hot gas, and extremely high - energy particles / Bridgeman Images

TEC4597454: La fontaine “” Embacle””, Bd Saint Germain in Paris. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597461: Apollo 16: J. Young on the Moon - John Young at the ALSEP site during first Apollo 16 EVA - John Young on the site of the scientific station ALSEP. 21/04/1972. Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, stands at the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) deployment site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA - 1) at the Descartes landing site. The components of the ALSEP are in the background. The lunar surface drill is just behind and to the right of astronaut Young. The dragon's rack and bore stems are to the left. The three - sensor Lunar Surface Magnetometer is beyond the rack. The dark object in the right background is the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG). Between the RTG and the drill is the Heat Flow Experiment. A part of the Central Station is at the right center edge of the picture. This photograph was taken by astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot. Apr 21 1972 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4597521: The institute of art and archeology, 3 rue Michelet, Paris 6th arrondissement, hosts the universites of Paris 1 and Paris 4, was built in 1927 by Paul Bigot (1870-1942) in Moorish style. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597680: Apollo 16: the LEM en approche du module de commande - Apollo 16: LM ascent stage approaching CSM - Le LEM en approche du module de commande d'Apollo 16. 23/04/1972. (23 April 1972) The ascent stage of the Apollo 16 Lunar Module (LM) approaches the Command and Service Modules (CSM) during rendezvous, with a contrasting background of darkness and the Sea of Fertility (Mare Fecundatatis). Taken from the CSM, the photo shows the aft side of the LM during a yaw maneuver. Note the buckled thermal panels. Messier and Messier A (right center) are among the most readily identifiable features on the surface below / Bridgeman Images

LRI4597731: Aerial view of cereal fields (1988 - Photography) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597736: Apollo 17: E. Cernan - Eugene (Gene) Cernan, Commander Apollo 17. 01/12/1971 / Bridgeman Images

LRI4597830: Aerial view of timber mill (1988 - Photography) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4597877: Book makers in Paris. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4597946: View of a double arch (1988 - Photography) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4598020: Apollo 17: H. Schmitt on the Moon - Apollo 17: H. Schmitt during EVA - 3 - H. Schmitt pres de la jeep lunaire à la Station 7. 13/12/1972 Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, works near the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA - 3) at the Taurus - Littrow site on the lunar surface. Station 7 / Bridgeman Images

LRI4683435: Crysochroa saundersii. From Thailand (macrophotography) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4684038: Themognatha macfarlanei, Australian bust (macrophotography) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4662582: Shuvuuia - Shuvuuia deserti was a small theropod dinosaur from Cretace discovered in Mongolia. Shuvuuia deserti is a little cretaceous dinosaur which belonged to a group called the mononychosaurs, a name meaning “” single-clawed reptiles””, referring to the single digit on the arms / Bridgeman Images