Vermot de Pas: Conquering Space, NASA's Photographic Icons, 168560, Paris

A stunning new image from NASA's new Solar Observatory Space Telescope. Here, an extreme ultraviolet image of the sun

The Sun photographed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

HUBBLE. Fantastic vision of an emission nebula, here the Rosette Nebula, a large star-forming region in the Unicorn Constellation.

HUBBLE. The Space Telescope has captured a swirling cloud of interstellar gas from a nursery of stars in the Carina Nebula.

Magnificent view of a crescent Moon photographed just above the Earth's atmosphere from the International Space Station as it flies over Asia.

Magnificent lift-off of a DELTA II rocket, renowned for producing exceptional wisps of smoke that rise up the length of the launcher

A superb photograph of space shuttle ENDEAVOUR (Mission STS-134) shot from a NASA training aircraft

This extraordinary swirling landscape of stars is known as the "North American Nebula".

HUBBLE telescope. This composite view from the HUBBLE space telescope is one of the largest ever taken of a complete galaxy

Photographic mosaic of the Arctic Ocean. This phograph from the "BLUE MARBBLE" series

The "Whirlpool Galaxy" is a spectacular spiral galaxy with impressive arms of stars and dust.

This photograph shows an impressive bubbling cauldron of star births.

Magnificent view of the planet Saturn from the Cassini space probe.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Expedition 37 Flight Engineer, wearing a Russian Orlan spacesuit, uses a fixed camera during an extravehicular activity (EVA) session

Magnificent mosaic photograph of the extraordinary planet Mars

Exceptional photograph of the planet SATURN taken by the CASSINI space probe

DEEP SPACE. Fermi's five-year view of the gamma-ray sky.

CASSINI interplanetary space mission. Planet Saturn.

HUBBLE telescope. The Pillars of Creation. Infrared light.

Impressive observation of the sun and its extreme ultraviolet light.

An M-class solar flare appears on the right side of the sun in this image shortly before midnight Eastern time

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous Pillars of Creation, originally photographed in 1995, revealing a sharper, wider view of the structures in this visible light image.

This extraordinary scientific photograph is the result of processing the multi-wavelength mixture of the space telescope, which observes the sun through four synchronized optics.

Observation of a medium-level solar flare on October 1, 2015 by NASA's Solar Observatory, which continuously observes the sun

A fabulous sunrise greets astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS)