Vermot de Pas: NASA Photographs - History of Space Conquest, 171095, Paris

Superb photograph of the Ladybird Nebula.

Birds of a feather. @The spiral configuration of the galaxy shown in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is striking for its delicate, feathery nature.

Hills in the center of Hale Crater.

Beautiful view of the northern plains of the planet MARS featuring colored rocks.
Period chromogenic print.

Beautiful view of a gullied crater.
Period chromogenic print.

Beautiful Martian landscape.
Period chromogenic print.

From the Ineternationle Space Station, rare observation of the last quarter Moon above the earth's horizon in the vacuum of space.
Vintage chromogenic print.

The waxing Gibbous Moon is photographed from the International Space Station as it orbits 261 miles above the South China Sea.
Vintage chromogenic print.

A magnificent scattering of stars appears in this photograph as it is captured some 180,000 light-years from Earth in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

This superb deep-space photograph taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a spiral galaxy 17 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair).

Photograph taken by NASA's Opportunity rover on the surface of Mars.

Superb crescent Moon photographed from the International Space Station (ISS) during an orbital sunset while flying at an altitude of 430 kilometers over the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand.

From the Ineternationle Space Station, rare observation of the last quarter Moon above the earth's horizon in the vacuum of space.
Vintage chromogenic print.

A superb photograph of the iconic group of galaxies nicknamed Stephan's Quintet.

Magnificent photographs of the iconic "Pillars of Creation".

What appears to be a huge flaming hourglass characterizes the formation of a new star.

Lost in Deep Space, a dwarf galaxy appears amid countless white stars, interspersed with yellow and orange galaxies of various shapes, dotting the black background.

The iconic Pillars of Creation reach out here like a ghostly hand (a spine-chilling prospect: these "fingers" are some 5 light-years long!).

The "Sol 3549" image is one of the observations made by NASA's Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars.

BLUE MARBBLE produced by NASA's geostationary Earth observation satellite.

Alnitak, the flame and horsehead nebula.
Vintage chromogenic print.

Twin columns of white flame spew from the solid-fuel boosters of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Misison STS-112) for this beautiful liftoff on October 7, 2002 from the John F.

A region of Deep Space reveals its astonishing cloud figures bathed in the infinite void of space.

This image compares views of a spiral galaxy captured by the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes.