Vermot de Pas: NASA PHOTOGRAPHS - HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF SPACE, 160182, Paris

LARGE FORMAT. THE SUN. Spectacular observation of a solar flare on November 13, 2012.

LARGE FORMAT. DEEP SPACE. At around 2.5 million light-years, the Andromeda galaxy, or M31, is our Milky Way's largest galactic neighbor.

LARGE FORMAT. HUBBLE telescope. This composite view from the HUBBLE space telescope is one of the largest ever taken of a complete galaxy.

LARGE FORMAT. Magnificent and rare observation of an exceptional solar flare.

GRAND FORMAT. Exceptional photograph of the globe showing both the photographic capture of three tropical cyclones rotating in the eastern Pacific Ocean on the same day.

Cassini Mission. Venus shines like a bright beacon through Saturn's rings in this unique image taken by the Cassini international space probe on November 10, 2012, when the spacecraft was placed in Saturn's shadow.

LARGE FORMAT. DEEP SPACE. Fantastic photograph of the mythical "Horsehead Nebula".

LARGE FORMAT. HUBBLE telescope. Observation of the M57 nebula or "Lyra Nebula" in the constellation of the same name.

LARGE FORMAT. Here we see the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy close to our own Milky Way.

LARGE FORMAT. NASA's Cassini spacecraft hovered over Saturn to reveal this majestic view of the golden planet and its main rings.

GRAND FORMAT. Exceptional panoramic view of the Carina Nebula.

LARGE FORMAT. DEEP SPACE. HUBBLE telescope. Pillars of Creation.

LARGE FORMAT. DEEP SPACE. In this photograph, what scientists suspected to be a Black Hole is in fact the brightest Pulsar ever recorded by man.

LARGE FORMAT. Impressive observation of the sun and its extreme ultraviolet light.

View of Titan. Observation of a methane sea on Titan.

LARGE FORMAT. On September 20, 1969, Ukrainian astrophysicists Klim Churyumovet-Svetlana Gerasimenko from the University of Kiev (Ukraine) discovered an extraordinary and historic close-up view of the famous comet 67P/Churumov-Guerasimenko or "Chouri".

LARGE FORMAT. X-rays illuminate our sun's surface in a bouquet of colors.

DEEP SPACE. This striking photograph of what looks like a double-bladed lightsaber straight out of the Star Wars films.

LARGE FORMAT. DEEP SPACE. The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated, ionized gas and dust in the Cygnus Constellation.

LARGE FORMAT. DEEP SPACE. HUBBLE. Fabulous observation of the nebula known as "THE BUBBLE" located 8,000 light-years from Earth in the Cassiopeia Constellation.

LARGE FORMAT. Fabulous and rare Earth survey observed by the LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER spacecraft from lunar orbit.

LARGE FORMAT. When a huge star exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, it left an expanding shell of debris.

LARGE FORMAT. MARS PLANET. CURIOSITY SELF-PORTRAIT. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree selfie using the camera at the end of its robotic arm.

LARGE FORMAT. This stunning version of a self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover at a drill site called "Buckskin" on lower Mount Sharp is presented as a stereographic projection, showing the horizon as a circle.

LARGE FORMAT. This photograph of the Sun is made from no fewer than 23 separate images covering the period from January 11, 2015 to January 21, 2016.