PIX4627116: Le Soleil vu by STEREO on 16/08/2008 - Solar activity seen by STEREO spacecraft on august 16 2008 - Protuberances observed by one of the STEREO satellites on 16 August 2008. A STEREO spacecraft observed several solar prominences rise and gyrate above the Sun over a two - day period (Aug. 15 - 16, 2008), with the largest one arcing a distance at least equal to 30 Earth diameters. They are spread out with one in each quadrant. Magnetic forces control solar prominences that rise above the Sun's surface. The prominences were seen in the 304 Angstroms wavelength of ultraviolet light. The material observed is actually ionized Helium at about 60,000 degrees. Prominences are relatively cool clouds of gas suspended above the Sun and controlled by magnetic forces. They can last from hours to months, but most usually remain for just a few days / Bridgeman Images

PIX4627176: Le Soleil vu by SDO on December 6, 2010 - The Sun seen by SDO. December 6, 2010 - Le Soleil vu en ultraviolet by SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) on December 6, 2010. It shows a gas filament of nearly a million miles breaking. A very long solar filament that had been snaking around the Sun erupted on December 6, 2010 with a flourish. Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) caught the action in dramatic detail in extreme ultraviolet light of Helium. It had been almost a million km long ((about half a solar radius) and a prominent feature on the Sun visible over two weeks ago before it rotated out of view. Filaments are elongated clouds of cooler gases suspended above the Sun by magnetic forces. They are rather unstable and often break away from the Sun / Bridgeman Images

PIX4627193: Le Soleil eclipse partially par la Terre - The Sun cut by the Earth seen by SDO - Le Soleil vu en ultraviolet by SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) on March 29, 2011 (07:14:57 UT). In this image the Sun is cut by the Earth because at the time of shooting, the SDO satellite was passing behind the Earth. Differences in the density of the Earth's atmosphere block light inevenly, which explains why the Sun does not appear to cut evenly. Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observes a partial solar eclipse. Twice a year, the SDO enters an eclipse season where the spacecraft slips behind Earth for up to 72 minutes a day. Image taken on March 29 2011 (07:14:57 UT) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4627294: Ring Eclipse of Sun 30 - 05 - 1984 - Photographed with red filter - Alabama - USA / Bridgeman Images

LBY4692659: Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France, 2007 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LBY4692688: Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France, 2007 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LBY4692791: Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France, 2007 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LBY4692899: Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France, 2007 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4627445: Partial eclipse of Soleil - 09 - 03 - 1997 - Solar eclipse 9 Mar, 1997. Partial eclipse, one degree fiel / Bridgeman Images

OMG4627453: The Amsterdam Stock Exchange (Netherlands). The Berlage Stock Exchange, built between 1898 and 1903, was the first commission by a then unknown architect Hendrick Petrus Berlage (1856-1934), this project made him immediately famous worldwide. Photography 05/04/07. / Bridgeman Images

OMG4627464: Siege Het Oosten in Amsterdam (Netherlands).Architect Steven Holl, 2002. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4627552: Total Eclipse of Sun - 11 - 08 - 1999 - End of eclips / Bridgeman Images

PIX4627598: Total Eclipse of Sun - 11 - 08 - 1999 - The eclipse observed by Fred Espenak on Lake Hazar - Turqui / Bridgeman Images

PIX4627783: Total solar eclipse in Antarctica. - Total solar eclipse. Antarctica. - Total eclipse of Sun at the southern pole, 24 November 2003. Total solar eclipse at South Pole on November 24th, 2003 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4627833: Annular Eclipse of the Sun - 3 October 2005 - Spain - Annular solar eclipse - Spain - October 3, 2005 - The phases of the eclipse photographed in H - alpha. Phases of the eclipse seen with an H - alpha filter / Bridgeman Images

TEC4627868: Cite Edouard Robert to Paris in the 12th arrondissement. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4627873: Cite Edouard Robert to Paris. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4627918: Total Solar Eclipse - Turkey 29 March 2006 - Total Solar Eclipse - Turkey - March 29, 2006 - Total Sun Eclipse observed at the Temple of Apollo in Side, Turkey on 29 March 2006. Venus is visible at the bottom right. Total solar eclipse seen at Apollo temple in Side, Turkey on March 29, 2006. Venus is visible at bottom right / Bridgeman Images

LBY4693239: Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France, 2007 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4628138: Bercy Village, Paris 12th arrondissement. Installed on part of Bercy's old warehouses, which declined until the sixties. This new commercial urbanism wanted to keep some traces of the old wine and spirits trading center. Shops have opened in old cellars and traces of railway tracks carrying wine have been preserved. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4628174: Entrepots de Bercy, Paris 12th. Louis XIV (1638-1715) built the first wine warehouses in Bercy because Paris was home to one of the largest vineyards in Europe. These warehouses reached their peak in the 19th century, becoming the world's largest wine and spirits trade centre. The activities of the warehouses began to declinate in the 20th century, with the destruction of the fortifications of Thiers (1920-1929), the success of the railway and the evolution of storage techniques. Bercy Village and Bercy Park have settled on this site. The surrounding streets have preserved the memory of the old warehouses: rue de Pommard, rue de Chablis, rue de Macon... / Bridgeman Images

PIX4628221: Total Eclipse of Sun 22/07/2009 - Total Solar Eclipse - July 22 2009 - Total Eclipse of Sun of 22 July 2009 seen in the Pacific Ocean (Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands). Composite of 38 images showing the solar crown, ash light (the Moon lit by the Earth) and some stars (the weakest visible here are magnitude 10). Total Solar Eclipse of July 22 2009 seen in the Pacific ocean (Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands). Composition of 38 images showing the solar corona, lunar surface and stars, highly beyond the ability of human vision during the eclipse. The weakest stars visible in the image are of about magnitude 10. The stars are a little bit blurred by the motion of the Sun during the very long eclipse / Bridgeman Images

TEC4628254: Pont Charles De Gaulle in Paris 12th arrondissement. Architects Louis Arretche and Roman Karasinsky, 1993-1996. 37th Paris bridge, the building is made of steel painted in white. It is 207 metres long and 35 metres wide. Its purpose is to facilitate traffic between Lyon and Austerlitz stations and to contribute to the development of eastern Paris. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4628266: Total Eclipse of Sun - Easter Island 11/07/2010 - Easter Island Total Solar Eclipse - July 11 2010 - The different phases of the total eclipse of Sun from 11 July 2010 seen above the Moais of Easter Island. Multiple exposure sequence of the total solar eclipse of 11 July 2010 seen above moai statues in Easter Island / Bridgeman Images

TEC4620501: The Brandenburg Gate (1788-1791, architect Karl Gotthard Langhans) and the Pariser Platz, Mitte district in Berlin (Germany). Photographei 15/10/03. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4620530: Nebulae NGC 7023 and VDB 141 in Cephee - Iris Nebula and Ghost nebula in Cepheus - The nebula of the Iris (NGC 7023) is a reflexion nebula illuminated by the star HD 200775. VDB 141, lower left, is a reflexion nebula illuminated by young stars. The bright star HD 200775 shining through the nebula NGC 7023 is a 10 solar mass star centrally imbedded in a region surrounded by ambient molecular cloud material. Bottom left is the reflection nebula VDB 141, the Ghost nebula illuminated by young stars / Bridgeman Images

PIX4620578: Nebula NGC 7129 in Cephee - Nebula NGC 7129 in Cephee - Nebula reflexion located 3300 years - light from Earth. This nebula houses very young stars, aged less than a million years old. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4620650: Nebula NGC 7635 in Cassiopee - North is at top. Seemingly adrift in a cosmic sea of stars and glowing gas, the delicate, floating apparition near the center (next to a blue tinted star) of this widefield view is cataloged as NGC 7635 - The Bubble Nebula. A mere 10 light - years wide, the tiny Bubble Nebula and the larger complex of interstellar gas and dust clouds are found about 11,000 light - years distant, straddling the boundary between the parental constellations Cepheus and Cassiopeia. Also included in the vista is open star cluster M52 (upper left), some 5,000 light - years away. The image spans about 2.7 degrees on the sky corresponding to a width of just over 500 light - years at the estimated distance of the Bubble Nebula. This image is based on data acquired by the Oschin Telescope at the Mount Palomar Observatory / Bridgeman Images

PIX4620665: Nebula NGC 7635 in Cassiopee - This nebula is located about 7800 light years from Earth. A massive star, called Wolf - Rayet, is responsible for the formation of this bubble; it is the star BD+60* 2522, 40 times more massive than our Sun. Image obtained by Isaac Newton 2.5m telescope from La Palma / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644624: MSG-2 (Meteosat 9) - Illustration of the European satellite MSG-2 (Meteosat Second Generation) or Meteosat 9 orbit the Earth. Launch on 21 December 2005, it is a geostationary satellite dedicated to meteorology. MSG - 2 in orbit around the Earth, illustration. The 2 - ton MSG - 2 was successfully lofted onto a geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5GS (V169), on December 21, together with India's Insat 4A satellite communication / Bridgeman Images

TEC4644801: Balcony in Paris 75017. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4645322: Metro station les Abbesses, Place des Abbesses, Paris 75018. Architect Hector Guimard (1867-1942). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645380: Hubble space telescope: 4th maintenance mission 05/2009 - Hubble space telescope: fourth repair mission 05/2009 - Astronaut Michael Good performs various maintenance tasks on the Hubble space telescope (HST) during the fourth of five space sorties planned during the STS mission - 125. 17 May 2009. Astronaut Michael Good, STS - 125 mission specialist, rides Atlantis' remote manipulator system arm to the exact position he needs to be to continue work on the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronaut Mike Massimino, who shared two spacewalks with Good during the last week, is out of frame. 17 May 2009 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4645446: Le cabaret du Moulin Rouge, 82 boulevard de Clichy Paris 75018. This cabaret founded by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller opened its doors on the occasion of the World Exposition in 1889. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645890: Satellite COROT - Artist's view of COROT - Artist's view of COROT - Artist's view of the satellite COROT in space. Launched at the end of December 2006, this satellite studies the physical phenomena occurring inside the stars. It is also used for the detection of extrasolar planets by observing the periodic micro-eclipses that these planets cause by passing in front of their mother star. Artist's view of COROT, the exoplanet hunter mission led by CNES, with ESA participation. Launched in December 2006, COROT is placed on a circular, polar orbit around Earth that allow for continuous observations of two large and opposite regions in the sky for more than 150 days each. Within each region there are many selected fields that will be monitored in turn. The reason for the oppositely sited regions is that, because of the Earth's movement around the Sun, the sun's rays start to interfere with the observations after 150 days. COROT then rotates by 180 degrees and start observing the other region / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645915: Satellite COROT - Artist's view of COROT - Artist's view of COROT - Artist's view of the satellite COROT in space. Launched at the end of December 2006, this satellite studies the physical phenomena occurring inside the stars. It is also used for the detection of extrasolar planets by observing the periodic micro-eclipses that these planets cause by passing in front of their mother star. This artist's view shows the COROT satellite, consisting of a 30 - centimetre space telescope launched in late 2006. COROT uses its telescope to monitor closely the changes in a star's brightness that comes from a planet crossing in front of it. While it is looking at a star, COROT is also able to detect 'starquakes', acoustical waves generated deep inside a star that send ripples across a star's surface, altering its brightness. The exact nature of the ripples allows astronomers to calculate the star's precise mass, age and chemical composition / Bridgeman Images