PFH3122319: China: Portrait of Guan Yu (-220 CE) from the 'Sancai Tuhui' by Wang Qi and Wang Siyi, c. 1607-1609 / Bridgeman Images

PFH5302727: Cambodia: Vendor preparing coconuts for temple offerings near the confluence of the Sap and Mekong rivers, Phnom Penh (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH5302731: Cambodia: Dried fish for sale in the New Central Market (Psar Thmey) in Phnom Penh (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH5302736: Cambodia: Dried fish and shellfish for sale in the New Central Market (Psar Thmey) in Phnom Penh (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH5302763: Cambodia: Dried fish for sale in the New Central Market (Psar Thmey) in Phnom Penh (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH5302866: Cambodia: Apsara (celestial nymph) bas-relief, Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH5302870: Cambodia: Small spirit house in the grounds of Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4582923: Remains of the supernova of the Sails - Detail - Vela supernova remnant. Detail - Detail of the rest of the supernova of the Sails. The supernova exploded 12,000 years ago. The line that crosses the image is the trace left by the passage of a satellite during the photo shoot. Image obtained with Siding Spring's 3.9m telescope. A supernova event marks the catastrophic end - point in the life of a massive star. The self - destruction of the star releases a huge amount of energy as radiation of all kinds, but a substantial fraction of the force of the explosion blasts the outer part of the supernova into an expanding shell of matter that travels through the almost empty space between the stars. As the rapidly moving blast wave encounters the relatively stationary interstellar medium it creates a very narrow, luminous shock front that appears as a faint nebula. Because the shock front is very convoluted the nebulosity appears to be highly structured and the various colours define different energy levels within the interaction. Although the star responsible for the Vela supernova remnant exploded 12,000 years ago, it is still affecting its environment / Bridgeman Images

PIX4623091: Planetary nebula NGC 5189 in the Fly - NGC 5189 - Planetary nebula in Musca - This nebula is located about 3000 light years from Earth in the southern constellation of Fly. Image obtained by the Gemini telescope. NGC 5189 is a planetary nebula. At the end of its life, a star with a mass less than eight times that of the Sun will blow its outer layers away, giving rise to a planetary nebula. Some of these stellar puffballs are almost round, resembling huge soap bubbles or giant planets (hence the name), but others, such as NGC 5189 are more intricate. In particular, this planetary nebula exhibits a curious S” - shaped profile, with a central bar that is most likely the projection of an inner ring of gas discharged by the star, seen edge on. The details of the physical processes producing such a complex symmetry from a simple, spherical star are still the object of astronomical controversy. One possibility is that the star has a very close (but unseen) companion. Over time the orbits drift due to precession and this could result in the complex curves on the opposite sides of the star visible in this image. This image has been taken with the Gemini Telescope. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4623115: Planetary nebula NGC 5189 in the fly - This nebula is located about 3000 light years from Earth in the southern constellation of the fly. Image obtained by the Gemini and Hubble telescopes (HST). NGC 5189 is a planetary nebula. At the end of its life, a star with a mass less than eight times that of the Sun will blow its outer layers away, giving rise to a planetary nebula. Some of these stellar puffballs are almost round, resembling huge soap bubbles or giant planets (hence the name), but others, such as NGC 5189 are more intricate. In particular, this planetary nebula exhibits a curious S” - shaped profile, with a central bar that is most likely the projection of an inner ring of gas discharged by the star, seen edge on. The details of the physical processes producing such a complex symmetry from a simple, spherical star are still the object of astronomical controversy. One possibility is that the star has a very close (but unseen) companion. Over time the orbits drift due to precession and this could result in the complex curves on the opposite sides of the star visible in this image. This image has been taken with the Gemini and Hubble space Telescope. / Bridgeman Images

USB1161178: A Barn Interior with a Woman preparing Food, Saftleven, Cornelis (1607-81) / Bridgeman Images

PFH3061603: Cambodia: Man propitiates a local deity at Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh / Bridgeman Images

PFH5302865: Cambodia: Buddha's mother giving birth holding a tree branch above her head, bas-relief, Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH5302868: Cambodia: Buddha images in the main "vihara" (temple sanctuary), Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH5302869: Cambodia: A statue of Penh, the founder of Phnom Penh, Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH5302726: Cambodia: Vendor preparing coconuts for temple offerings near the confluence of the Sap and Mekong rivers, Phnom Penh (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5151077: Coun Bill Robson, Coun Olive Kaer, Coun Doris Starkey and, disappearing fast, Coun Jean Baty, September 1976 / Bridgeman Images

PFH3614516: Italy: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642), Italian physicist, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer. 19th century statue outside the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. Sculpted by Aristodemo Costoli. (2016) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4572545: Brown dwarf star Teide 1 - Brown dwarf Teide 1 - Artist view of the brown dwarf star Teide 1. Discovered in 1995 in the Pleiades cluster, about 55 times the mass of Jupiter, this brown dwarf is represented here in the sky of a young exoplanet lit by the star. This is how Teide 1 might appear from the surface of a hypothetical, March - like planet. Discovered in 1995, Teide 1 is a type of mysterious object called a brown dwarf (failed star or super planet). Bigger than a planet, but smaller than a star, this brown dwarf is about 400 light years from the Earth in the Pleiades star cluster. It is thought that Teide 1 has the mass equivalent of about 55 Jupiters, which is considered large for a brown dwarf. Teide 1 is massive enough, and hence hot enough, to sustain lithium fusion in its core, but is unable to initiate hydrogen fusion like our sun. Teide 1 is probably only about 120 million years old (compared to our sun's age of 4.5 billion years) and shines at a temperature of 4,000o F, less than half as hot as the surface of our sun. In this image a young planet orbits Teide 1 from distance of about four million miles. The planet has acquired enough atmosphere to host clouds and put a lower limit on size of meteors that reach its surface (the smaller ones burn up before reaching the ground), but it is still very early in its evolution. Teide 1 looms large in this planet's sky, but in fact Teide 1's diameter is only about twice that of Jupiter's. All brown dwarfs are roughly the size of Jupiter - - the more massive brown dwarfs are simply more dense. As for this planet, it is very unlikely that life will ever evolve here due to its host's relatively short life span; in just another billion years Teide 1 will have cooled to a modest 1,700o F / Bridgeman Images

CHT170442: Tinted still depicting a ballroom scene from the film 'Au Bonheur des Dames' by Andre Cayatte (1909-89) after the novel by Emile Zola (1840-1902) 1943 (colour litho), French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PFH3277587: China: Illustration depicting Guan Yu (-220 CE) chasing Guan Hai, from a Ming Dynasty edition of 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms', called 'Sanguo zhi tongsu yanyi' / Bridgeman Images

PFH3277582: China: Guan Yu (-220 CE) and Zhang Fei (-221 CE) capture two generals, from a Ming Dynasty edition of 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms', called 'Sanguo zhi tongsu yanyi' / Bridgeman Images

MPX5154384: Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon has just become an ambassador for The Air Ambulance Service based at Coventry Airport., 13/04/2012 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LZT5489579: Portrait of Carel Borchaert Voet, Nicolaas Verkolje, 1700 - 1746 ©LisztCollection/Leemage / Bridgeman Images

MPX5135745: Johnny Dankworth and Cleo Laine. The easiest way of offending Cleo Laine is to suggest that most people still think of her as a jazz/blues singer. "You can't have been following my career very closely...that's what people say who don't go to my performances," comes the crisp reply. "The way the media put tags on people is quite odious and can restrict a career." Point taken, she has done a lot besides jazz. She earned herself acclaim in various West End productions, from straight roles in "Hedda Gabler" and Shakespeare and musicals, operas and as a soloist with major orchestras. But surely we can be forgiven for thinking of her first as half of that superbly successful jazz partnership with her composer husband John Dankworth? And they are together again in the new musical "Colette," written for her by John Dankworth, which had its world premier at the Alexander Theatre, Birmingham on Tuesday, and will run there for two weeks before transferring to the West End. "Colette" is based on the life of the famous French novelist who created "Gigi." They have a 350-seat theatre/concert hall at their Wavendon, Bucks. home, where they experimented with songs and readings to see what would be viable as a stage production. 1st September 1980 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MAA2956854: Sulamani, Mandalay (oil on canvas), Kelly, Gerald (1879-1972) / Bridgeman Images

NAM5925873: ‘The Veteran’s Farewell’ (litho), Dadd, Frank (1851-1929) / Bridgeman Images

PFH5302748: Turkey / Byzantium: Justinian I (482 - 565), 1583 (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

XCL5882606: Operating on Guanyu's Arm, 1840s (hanging scroll; ink, color and gold leaf on silk), Japanese School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5154380: Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon has just become an ambassador for The Air Ambulance Service based at Coventry Airport., 13/04/2012 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5154402: Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon has just become an ambassador for The Air Ambulance Service based at Coventry Airport., 13/04/2012 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5154386: Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon has just become an ambassador for The Air Ambulance Service based at Coventry Airport., 13/04/2012 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH3432022: Japan: Saigo Takamori (1828-1877) with his officers, from the French news magazine 'Le Monde Illustre', 1877 / Bridgeman Images

PFH3431932: Japan: 'Chang'e flees to the moon', woodblock painting by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), 1885, Yoshitoshi, Tsukioka (1839-92) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5135842: The easiest way of offending Cleo Laine is to suggest that most people still think of her as a jazz/blues singer. "You can't have been following my career very closely...that's what people say who don't go to my performances," comes the crisp reply. "The way the media put tags on people is quite odious and can restrict a career." Point taken, she has done a lot besides jazz. She earned herself acclaim in various West End productions, from straight roles in "Hedda Gabler" and Shakespeare and musicals, operas and as a soloist with major orchestras. But surely we can be forgiven for thinking of her first as half of that superbly successful jazz partnership with her composer husband John Dankworth? And they are together again in the new musical "Colette," written for her by John Dankworth, which had its world premier at the Alexander Theatre, Birmingham on Tuesday, and will run there for two weeks before transferring to the West End. "Colette" is based on the life of the famous French novelist who created "Gigi." They have a 350-seat theatre/concert hall at their Wavendon, Bucks. home, where they experimented with songs and readings to see what would be viable as a stage production. 1st September 1980 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH3614407: Italy: Augustus Caesar (63 BCE-14 CE), 1st Roman Emperor, from the book 'Romanorvm imperatorvm effigies: elogijs ex diuersis scriptoribus per Thomam Treteru S. Mariae Transtyberim canonicum collectis', 1583 / Bridgeman Images