PIX4640148: Space elevator - Artist view - Space elevator - Artist view - Elevator project connects to a space station in geostationary orbit. An elevator made of unimaginably strong materials rises 22,000 miles above the equator, providing easy access to space, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640543: Interstellar ship - Artist's view - starship arrives alpha centauri - An interstellar ship arrives in orbit around an exoplanet, after a 50-year journey to the Alpha star of the Centaurus. The bright star under the exoplanet is our Sun, a distance of 4.3 years of light. A habitat two miles across arrives to orbit a hypothetical earthlike planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri after a 50 - year voyage. The discarded braking stage of the giant starship drifts in the far background. The bright star below the planet is our sun, 4.3 light years away, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645711: Satellite HDST and Starshade - High Definition Space Telescope with starshade: High Definition Space Telescope (HDST) is an observation satellite project. Located at the point of Lagrange 2, this satellite equipped with a 12-metre mirror would offer images of the universe 24 times more accurate than those obtained by the Hubble space telescope. It could be accompanied by a blackout (starshade), places in space a long distance from it to block the light of a star in order to observe its exoplanets. The High Definition Space Telescope is almost twice the size of a tennis court. By using a football-field-sized shade to block the light from distant stars, the HDST could directly observe exoplanets;, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645492: Artist view showing the Hubble Space Telescope realising the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. - Artist view showing the Hubble Space Telescope realising the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. - Artist view showing the Hubble Space Telescope realising the Hubble Ultra Deep Field., Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4613953: Active galaxies in collision - Artist view - Active galaxies collide - Artist view - Artist view of a quasar whose jet is powered by the material of a galaxy rentree in collision. Active galaxies collide, feeding matter to the central black holes that power quasars, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4607482: Project Daedalus - Vue d'artiste - Daedalus project - Artist view - Daedalus was an interstellar space probe project written in the 1970s. The aim was to make a probe capable of examining the Barnard star system in order to study possible planets. A crewed starship based on the British Interplanetary Society's 1970's Daedalus design fires its nuclear pulse engine in interstellar space. The engine, capable of producing 0.01 gravity acceleration, boosts the ship to 10 percent the speed of light after ten years of thrust, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606083: Huygens probe lands on Titan. - Huygens probe lands on Titan. - Artist's view of the descent of the European probe Huygens on Titan. 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, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images