Vermot de Pas: NASA Photographs - History of Space Conquest, 172873, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 08, 2025 - December 08, 2025

Page Size: 300 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201	NASA.	HUBBLE. View of the Retina Nebula, located 1,900 light-years from Earth at the edge of the Wolf Constellation.	2002	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
202	NASA.	Planet Mars. Bacolor crater reconstructed from images taken between 2002 and 2005 by the Mars Odyssey space probe.	2002-2005	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
203	NASA.	High-resolution mosaic of Saturn's moon Phoebe.	June 11, 2004	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
204	NASA.	Star V838 "Monocerotis" observed by the Hubble telescope	March 4, 2004	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
205	NASA.	HUBBLE TELESCOPE. Extraordinary photograph of Deep Space.	September 3, 2003 to January 16, 2004	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
206	NASA.	Launch of the Atlas V rocket carrying the MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER (MRO) satellite.	August 12, 2005	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
207	NASA.	One of the most beautiful views of Saturn's Moon: ENCELADE.	July 14, 2005	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
208	NASA.	Impressive extravehicular activity (EVA): astronaut Stephen K. Robinson, STS-114 mission specialist, anchored to the International Space Station's Canadarm2.	2005	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
209	NASA.	CASSINI mission. Photograph of Saturn's moon Enceladus, backlit by the Sun.	March 10, 2006	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
210	NASA.	Hubble. Stellar debris in the Large Magellanic Cloud.	November 2006	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
211	NASA.	Planet MARS. The impressive "VICTORIA CRATER" reveals a strangely jagged circumference.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
212	NASA.	Extraodinary view of the center of our galaxy: The Milky Way.	2006	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
213	NASA.	Rings of Saturn, Mimas and Epimetheus.	November 6, 2007	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
214	NASA.	Cassini-Huyghens mission. A photographic record of an exceptional space flight over the planet Saturn.	2007	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
215	NASA.	Cassini mission. Close-up photograph of the planet Saturn	2007	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
216	NASA.	Photographic montage showing the planets Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io.	2007	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
217	NASA.	Superb and historic photograph from the "BLUE MARBLE" series. Western Hemisphere.	2007	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
218	NASA.	Superb and historic photograph from the "BLUE MARBLE" series. Indian Ocean.	2007	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
219	NASA.	DEEP SPACE. Beautiful image of the HELIX nebula.	2007	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
220	NASA.	Fantastic photograph of the star FOMALHAUT: the brightest star in the Southern Pisces Cosntellation.	November 2008	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
221	NASA.	HUBBLE TELESCOPE. This magnificent galaxy is the product of a collision between two disk galaxies that began 300 million years ago.	2008	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
222	NASA.	DEEP SPACE. The Cat's Eye Nebula Redux (also known as the Cat's Eye, this planetary nebula is located around 3,000 light-years from Earth).	2008	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
223	NASA.	HUBBLE telescope. Infrared observation of the planet Saturn by the HUBBLE telescope.	March 2008	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
224		Astrophysics photography. Superb view of the Eagle Nebula.	2009	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
225	NASA.	HUBBLE TELESCOPE. Colorful stars galore in the globular star cluster Omega Centauri.	2009	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown

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