PIX4592348: Constellation Ophiuchus - Constellation of Ophiuchus - The constellation Ophiuchus separates the constellation of the Snake into two parts. The constellation of Ophiuchus is located between Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda, two parts of the constellation of Serpens. The southern part of Ophiuchus contains one of the darkest and most visually distinctive dark clouds of the Miky Way. It is popularly known as the Dark Horse nebula - - the body of the horse runs north - south and its legs point towards the bright star Antares. The hind quarters of the horse make up the (smoker's) Pipe nebula, with the stem pointing to Antares. The dust of forelegs reaches a long way in the direction of Antares, where it is illuminated by stars associated with Rho Ophiuchi to make a distinctive reflection nebula. The dusty clouds of the Dark Horse nebula hide the northern part of the Milky Way's central bulge. The southern part (in Sagittarius) is relatively unobscured. Without this dust the extent of the Milky Way's bulge would be much more apparent to the unaided eye and without it our understanding of the nature of our galaxy as a flattened disk might have come sooner / Bridgeman Images
PIX4592542: Star sky above an old chapel - Starry sky above an old chapel - The star Sirius shines above the chapel of Languidou (Finistere); above the right, the constellation of Orion and in the upper right corner, the passage of an artificial satellite. 21/10/2007 Star Sirius shines with Orion constellation above the old chapel of Languidou (Finistere, France). In the right upper corner, an artificial satellite left a trail. 21/10/200 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4592774: Star sky in a village of Gers - Constellation of Orion above a french village - Star sky with the constellations of Orion and Taurus. Church of Blaziert, Gers, France. March 2009. Starry sky with the constellations of Orion and Taurus. Church of Blaziert, Gers, France. March 2009 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4633872: Aurora boreale - Norway - Aurora borealis - Norway - Aurora boreale above Haukland Beach (Vestvagoya, Lofoten, Norway). October 10, 2015. Colorful Northern Lights dance above the beach at Haukland, Norway. Haukland was voted the best bathing beach of the country in Lofoten Island, Norway. October 10, 2015 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4634139: Hurricanes Katia, Irma, and Jose seen by satellite 09/2017 - Hurricanes Katia, Irma, and Jose 09/2017: Hurricanes Katia, Irma, and Jose seen by the Suomi NPP satellite on September 8, 2017. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured the data for a mosaic of Katia, Irma, and Jose as they appeared in the early hours of September 8, 2017. The images were acquired by the VIIRS “” day-night band,””” which detects light signals in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared, and uses filtering techniques to observe signals such as city lights, auroras, wildfires, and reflected moonlight. In this case, the clouds were lit by the nearly full Moon. The image is a composite, showing cloud imagery combined with data on city lights / Bridgeman Images
PIX4614023: Statue of Jean-Baptiste Colbert in Paris: View of the statue of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), in the courtyard Napoleon du Louvre. Financial controller of Louis XIV, he convinced the king that an Academy of Sciences was founded in 1666 and that the Astronomical Observatory was realised the following year. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4593107: Peacock Constellation - Constellation of Pavo - Pavo, the Peacock, lies south of Sagittarius and Corona Australis, and is one of Johann Bayer's twelve constellations, introduced in 1603. It is one of several birds in the southern sky, including Apus, Grus, Phoenix and Tucanae. The legends say that the goddess of the heavens, Juno (the Greek Hera) ordered a hundred - eyed giant, Argos Panoptes, to keep his eyes on her wandering husband, Jupiter. He ordered Argos slain and Juno transformed the 100 eyes into the Peacock's tail. These eyes are also meant to represent the starry sky / Bridgeman Images