Images Dated 1st April 2014

Victorian restaurant waiter taking an order

A smiling waiter in a Victorian restaurant or gentlemen's club, taking an order from a diner. From "Punch, or the London Charivari", Volume LXVIII (68), published in London in 1875

© Linda Steward

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Aerial view of The Beehive and NZ Parliament House

The Parliament Buildings in Lambton Quay area feature some of the city's most stunning and instantly recognisable architecture. Consisting of three magnificent structures, by far the most distinctive part of the Wellington Parliament Buildings is the breathtaking Beehive building, a modern executive office space, designed by British architect Sir Basil Spence

© Lewis Mulatero

The colorful region around Antares in Scorpius and blue Rho Ophiuchi in Ophiuchus

The colorful region around yellow Antares (bottom) in Scorpius and blue Rho Ophiuchi (top) in Ophiuchus. The nebulae are largely reflection nebulae, taking on the color of the stars embedded in the nebulae. However, the field also contains a lot of emission nebulosity, hydrogen gas glowing red and magenta. Plus there are fingers of brown dark dusty nebulosity. It is one of the most colorful regions of the sky.
At right of Antares are two globular clusters, NGC 6144, and the larger Messier 4, right of Antares

© Alan Dyer/Stocktrek Images