Illumination Gallery

Light echoes from exploding star

Light echoes from an exploding star. Hubble Space Telescope image of an illuminated dust shell around the star v838 Monocerotis. This star underwent a massive brightening in January 2002, temporarily becoming the brightest star in the galaxy. The light from this outburst reflects from a series of dust shells around the star, which are thought to have been ejected during previous activity. The phenomenon allows study of the fine structure of the dust shells, which could help explain why the star behaves as it does. This image was taken on 8th February 2004 by the Advanced Camera for Surveys

© NASA/ESA/STSCI/H.BOND/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Trundholm Sun Chariot

The Trundholm Sun Chariot is a late Nordic branze Age artifact discovered in Denmark that has been interpreted as a dispiction of the sun being pulled by a mare that may have relation to later Norse mythology attest in 13th century sources. The scupture has been dated 18th to 16th century BC, discovered in 1902 in the Trundholm moor in West Zealand Country on the northwest coast of the island Zealand in Denmark. The disk alone has a diameter of 25 cm

© Detlev van Ravenswaay

Illuminated Wenzelbibel manuscript

A page from the illuminated manuscript known as the Wenzelbibel (or Wenzelsbibel), named after King Wenzel (Wenceslaus) IV of Bohemia. It contains some of the books of the Old Testament, and was written in German, translated from Latin

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10005642

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