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

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October 17, 2025 - October 17, 2025
Page Size: 324 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 NASA. LARGE FORMAT.

Important view of the ENCELADE Moon from the planet Saturn, now one of the solar system's top priorities for the search for extraterrestrial life.

2005 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
177 NASA. CASSINI Mission.

A rare and fantastic photograph of Saturn's mini Moon HYPERION.

2005 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
178 NASA.

Observation of an aurora borealis (Earth's north pole) from the International Space Station on August 31, 2005.

2005 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
179 NASA. LARGE FORMAT. Planet MARS.

The impressive "VICTORIA CRATER" reveals a strangely jagged circumference.

2006 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
180 NASA.

Rare optical effect due to the Earth's atmosphere, showing an extraordinary Moon Crescent from space and from the International Space Station (ISS).

2006 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
181 NASA. LARGE FORMAT.

First photograph of the Earth's disc in its entirety taken by the Goes space probe.

EUR 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
182 NASA. TITAN, moon of SATURN.

Processing from calibrated red, green and violet filtered images of Titan, taken by Cassini on January 15, 2006.
Vintage chromogenic print.

2006 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 189.00
183 NASA.

Full Earth Moon photographed from the International Space Station on Feb.

2006 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
184 NASA. LARGE FORMAT. HUBBLE.

Magnificent view of hydrogen plumes scattered by the central nucleus of an energetic galaxy.

2006 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
185 NASA. HUBBLE space telescope.

False-color composite photograph of the "Roue de la Charette" galaxy.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
186 NASA. LARGE FORMAT.

This exceptional photograph of Deep Space reveals what astonomists call a "snake" visible in the upper left of the image and a stormy cosmic environment surrounding it.

EUR 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
187 NASA.

Photograph from Earth orbit.

2006 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
189 NASA. LARGE FORMAT.

Beautiful infrared view of the famous Eagle Nebula.

2007 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
190 NASA.

Photographic montage showing the planets Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io.

2007 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
191 NASA. LARGE FORMAT.

An exceptional view of the Sun.

2007 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
192 NASA.

Photograph of the planet SATURN processed using calibrated red, green and blue filtered images taken by the Cassini space probe on November 29, 2007.
Vintage chromogenic print.

2007 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
193 NASA.

Rings of Saturn, Mimas and Epimetheus.

2007 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
194 NASA. LARGE FORMAT.

A composite image of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue) and Hubble Space Telescope (red and purple) shows a phase that Sun-like stars undergo at the end of their lives.

2008 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
195 Nasa. HUBBLE telescope.

Infrared observation of the planet Saturn by the HUBBLE telescope.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
196 NASA. LARGE FORMAT.

Fantastic photograph of the star FOMALHAUT: the brightest star in the Southern Pisces Cosntellation.

EUR 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
197 NASA. LARGE FORMAT.

Perfect view of the planet SATURN.

2006 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 EUR 579.60
198 NASA. LARGE FORMAT. HUBBLE TELESCOPE.

Colorful stars galore in the globular star cluster Omega Centauri.

2009 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
199 NASA. DEEP SPACE. LARGE FORMAT. HUBBLE TELESCOPE.

The galactic wreckage in Stephan's Quintet.

EUR 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
200 NASA. Large format.

The planet Saturn during one of its equinoxes in 2009.
Vintage chromogenic print.

2009 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
201 NASA.

International Space Station (ISS).

2009 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
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