PIX4572573: Artist's view of a nova recurrente - Recurrent nova. Artwork - Artist's view of a nova, a white dwarf star that attracts the material of a companion star at the end of life, a red giant, and compresses these gases and then releases a nuclear fusion reaction releasing a huge amount of energy in the form of a brief, extremely bright light. A nova recurrente is a star with at least two nova-type explosions / Bridgeman Images

PIX4578079: Night of Full Moon - Full moon and lighthouse. - The Full Moon and the Lighthouse of Combrit. 28 October 2004, Sainte Marine (Finistere - France). Full moon and Combrit lighthouse in Brittany. October 28, 2004 / Bridgeman Images

LBY4578152: The port of Honfleur (Calvados). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4578248: Full moon rising behind the Pardrix lighthouse in Finistere (between Ile - Tudy and Loctudy) 6 May 2012, Brittany, France / Bridgeman Images

PIX4578253: Full moon above the Pardrix lighthouse in Finistere (between Tudy Island and Loctudy). 24 June 2013, Brittany, France / Bridgeman Images

PIX4578276: Full moon above the Pardrix lighthouse in Finistere (between Tudy Island and Loctudy). 24 June 2013, Brittany, France / Bridgeman Images

ITR4578513: Chateau et jardins de Vaux Le Visomte (Vaux-Le-Vicomte) in Maincy (Seine et Marne). Architect Louis Le Vau (1612-1670), construction 1656-1659. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4573214: Shopping centre Les Quatre Temps, (architectesJean Dimitrijevic and Guy Lagneau, construction 1981) in La Defense (Hauts de Seine). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4573224: Exoplanets around 70 Virginis - A jovian planet orbiting 70 Virginis - Artist's view of the extrasolar planet 70 Vir B, a giant gas planet orbiting around a solar star, about 78 years old - light from the Sun. This exoplanet has about 6 times the mass of Jupiter and its distance from its star 70 Virginis is almost the same as that of Mercury from the Sun. A ringed 70 Vir B presides over the hot and airless terrain of a hypothetical moon. While it is not known if 70 Vir B has rings, it is certainly possible. 70 Vir B's rings would have no ice in them due to is proximity to its sun. Such rings would likely be less than 100 million years old and could have been formed from the shattered remnants of an asteroid that wondered too close to this giant planet. 70 Vir B's eccentric orbit would increase the likelihood of its encountering other objects in orbit around 70 Virginis. About 78 light years from the Earth astronomers believe that there is a large planet orbiting 70 Virginis, a type G5V star (similar to our own sun). Designated 70 Vir B, this planet is believed to have over six times the mass of the planet Jupiter and orbits around its sun in an eccentric orbit once every 116 days. 70 Vir B's average distance from its sun is about the same as that of the planet Mercury from our own sun / Bridgeman Images

PIX4573380: Planet forming around variable star KH 15D - This young star (to the right) of the constellation Unicorn is surrounded by a large disc of dust that eclipses it every 48 days and in which planets are forming / Bridgeman Images

PIX4573405: Artist's view of a hot Jupiter - Artist's view of the transit of a hot Jupiter (gas-like planet very close to its star) in front of its star / Bridgeman Images

TEC4573521: Tours to the Defense (Hauts de Seine) with the circular boulevard in the foreground. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4573577: Quartier de la Defense (Hauts de Seine). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4578784: Crescent Moon and Clouds - Moon crescent with cloud / Bridgeman Images

PIX4573767: Artist's view of organisms living on the surface of a gas planet satellite / Bridgeman Images

PIX4578958: Quarter de Lune in Iceland - Half Moon seen in Iceland - Last quarter of Moon seen in Iceland. Near the northern pole, the Moon appears low on the horizon with its north at the top. Last quarter of the moon seen in Iceland. Near north pole, Moon is low above the horizon with its north pole up / Bridgeman Images

PIX4579257: Total Eclipse of Moon - 20 - 01 - 2000 - Total Eclipse of Moon - 20 - 01 - 2000 - All phases of eclipse photographed 10 minutes apart / Bridgeman Images

PIX4579346: Total Eclipse of Moon - 09 - 01 - 2001 - Eclipse of Moon - Totalite - 09 - 01 - 2001 - Photo of total eclipse in the middle of totalite / Bridgeman Images

PIX4579384: Total Eclipse of Moon, Soltaniyeh, Iran - Lunar eclipse over Soltaniyeh - Total Eclipse of Moon over Soltaniyeh dome in Iran. Lunar eclipse over the dome of Soltaniyeh in Iran / Bridgeman Images

PIX4579393: Total Eclipse of Moon, Persepolis, Iran - Lunar eclipse over Persepolis - Eclipse of Moon above the ruins of Persepolis in Iran. Lunar eclipse over Persepolis, Fars province, southen Iran / Bridgeman Images

PIX4579491: Eclipse de Lune - 27 - 10 - 2004 - The phases of eclipse in chapele / Bridgeman Images

TEC4579535: Principaute de Monaco, view from Roquebrune (Alpes Maritimes). / Bridgeman Images

TEC4579607: Sports field in Beausoleil (Alpes Maritimes). / Bridgeman Images

TEC4572206: Artist workshop, Avenue Reille in Paris 14th arrondissement. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4572713: Artist's view of a fugitive star - A runaway star in the Large Magellanic cloud - The star HE0457 - 5439 is a massive star in the Grand Cloud of Magellan; it is a star escaping from this galaxy at a speed of 2.6 Million km/h Background image obtained at the observatory of La Silla in Chile; the star fleeing has been added on the image. The star HE0457 - 5439 is a massive star wich lies closer to one of the Milky Way satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud, located 160,000 light - years away from us. This is a runaway star, moving at more than 2.6 million kilometers per hour. Astronomers find it likely for the star to have reached its present position had it been ejected from the centre of the LMC. The background image has been obtained at La Silla observatory, the star moving has been added / Bridgeman Images

LBY4572739: Les Catacombes, Paris 14th arrondissement. The origin of the catacombs dates back to the end of the 18th century, and collected all the bones found in the soil of Paris until around 1950. Anonymity is complete. It is estimated that six million of the individuals whose remains were collected in the catacombs. / Bridgeman Images

LBY4572781: Place Fernand Mourlot in Paris. 2005 photograph. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4572812: Artist's view of a magnetar and its magnetic field - A magnetar with its magnetic field. Artwork - Illustration showing the magnetic field lines of a magnetar that intertwine causing tensions on the surface of the neutron star that partially breaks causing an emission of X-rays and gamma rays. A magnetar is a neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field. This artwork shows magnetic field lines of the star causing X and gamma rays burst when they mix / Bridgeman Images

PIX4572892: Binary pulsar and gravitational waves - Artist's impression of the pulsar PSR J0348+0432 and its white dwarf companion - Artist's view of a gravitational wave generated by a system of a neutron star associated with a white dwarf, spreading on the fabric of space - time. This artist's impression shows the exotic double object that consists of a tiny, but very heavy neutron star that spins 25 times each second, orbited every two and a half hours by a white dwarf star. The neutron star is a pulsar named PSR J0348+0432 that is giving off radio waves that can be picked up on Earth by radio telescopes. Although this unusual pair is very interesting in its own right it is also a unique laboratory for testing the limits of physical theories. This system is radiating gravitational radiation, ripples in spacetime. Although these waves cannot be detected directly by astronomers on Earth they can be detected indirectly by measuring the change in the orbit of the system as it loses energy. As the pulsar is so small the relative sizes of the two objects are not drawn to scale / Bridgeman Images

PIX4573100: Planet around the star Fomalhaut - Planet orbiting star Fomalhaut - First visible light photo of an extrasolar planet obtained by the space telescope Hubble. The planet called Fomalhaut b, is a planet with a mass close to Jupiter, orbiting the star Fomalhaut, 25 years - light from Earth in the constellation of Southern Fish. The star Fomalhaut (indicated by a white dot) is hidden here to show the dust disc surrounding it and the position of the planet. Located at a distance of about four times that separating Neptune from the Sun, Fomalhaut b makes a complete orbit around its star in 872 years. November 2008 - This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the newly discovered planet, Fomalhaut b, orbiting its parent star, Fomalhaut. The small white box at lower right pinpoints the planet's location. Fomalhaut b has carved a path along the inner edge of a vast, dusty debris ring encircling Fomalhaut that is 34.5 billion kilometers across. Fomalhaut b lies three billion kilometers inside the ring's inner edge and orbits 17 billion kilometers from its star. The inset at bottom right is a composite image showing the planet's position during Hubble observations taken in 2004 and 2006. Astronomers have calculated that Fomalhaut b completes an orbit around its parent star every 872 years. The white dot in the centre of the image marks the star's location. The region around Fomalhaut's location is black because astronomers used the Advanced Camera's coronagraph to block out the star's bright glare so that the dim planet could be seen. Fomalhaut b is 100 million times fainter than its star. The radial streaks are scattered starlight. The red dot at lower left is a background star. The Fomalhaut system is 25 light - years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. This false - colour image was taken in October 2004 and July 2006 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4573107: Planet around the star Fomalhaut - Planet orbiting star Fomalhaut - First visible light photo of an extrasolar planet obtained by the space telescope Hubble. The planet called Fomalhaut b, is a planet with a mass close to Jupiter, orbiting the star Fomalhaut, 25 years - light from Earth in the constellation of Southern Fish. The star Fomalhaut (indicated by a white dot) is hidden here to show the dust disc surrounding it and the position of the planet. Located at a distance of about four times that separating Neptune from the Sun, Fomalhaut b makes a complete orbit around its star in 872 years. November 2008 - This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the newly discovered planet, Fomalhaut b, orbiting its parent star, Fomalhaut. The small white box at lower right pinpoints the planet's location. Fomalhaut b has carved a path along the inner edge of a vast, dusty debris ring encircling Fomalhaut that is 34.5 billion kilometers across. Fomalhaut b lies three billion kilometers inside the ring's inner edge and orbits 17 billion kilometers from its star. The inset at bottom right is a composite image showing the planet's position during Hubble observations taken in 2004 and 2006. Astronomers have calculated that Fomalhaut b completes an orbit around its parent star every 872 years. The white dot in the centre of the image marks the star's location. The region around Fomalhaut's location is black because astronomers used the Advanced Camera's coronagraph to block out the star's bright glare so that the dim planet could be seen. Fomalhaut b is 100 million times fainter than its star. The radial streaks are scattered starlight. The red dot at lower left is a background star. The Fomalhaut system is 25 light - years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. This false - colour image was taken in October 2004 and July 2006 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4573227: Shopping centre Les Quatre Temps, (architectesJean Dimitrijevic and Guy Lagneau, construction 1981) in La Defense (Hauts de Seine). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4573296: Colors of Plants on Alien Worlds - An artist's view of extrasolar planets where plant life could be very different from what we know on Earth. Artwork showing different colors of vegetal life on exoplanets / Bridgeman Images

PIX4573350: Planete extrasolaire - Artist view - Extrasolar planet - Artist vie / Bridgeman Images

PIX4573375: Exoplanete HD 209458b - Artist's view - This exoplanet located in the constellation Pegase, about 150 years ago - light from Earth, seems to be a gas giant whose hydrogene evaporates. An international team of astronomers led by Alfred Vidal - Madjar (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, France) observed the first signs of oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our Solar System for the first time using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The atoms of carbon and oxygen are swept up from the lower atmosphere with the flow of escaping atmospheric atomic hydrogen - like dust in a supersonic whirlwind - in a process called atmospheric 'blow off'. Credit: European Space Agency and Alfred Vidal - Majar (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, France / Bridgeman Images

TEC4573383: Tour Hoechst Marion Roussel, 1 Terrasse Bellini, Puteaux La Defense (Hauts de Seine). Construction 1966, architects Jean de Mailly and Jacques Depusse. / Bridgeman Images