Fuji-san

Fuji-san



Magical Mount Fuji.



Credit: NASA

Ulysses bites the stardust

Ulysses bites the stardust



Credit: ESA

"Ulysses is the first spacecraft to survey the environment in space above and below the poles of the Sun in the four dimensions of space and time. Among many other ground-breaking results, the hugely successful mission showed that the Sun's magnetic field is carried into the Solar System in a more complicated manner than previously believed. "

After one year prolongation ESA and NASA have jointly decided to put Ulysses on 'monitor' mode only from June 30th 2009. Ulysses finally bites the stardust.

Sun burns tracks

Traces of Sun





Credit: Maciej Zapiór

Tracks of Sun

This is what the Sun leaves behind on the sky if you look trough a can...Awesome photography!

Super Massive Black Hole - Blue Blop

Blop, Blop...Lyman Alpha Blop



Who can resist a Super Massive Black Hole - with a Blop!



Not Me!

Mars in Infrared

Pastel Mars



Credit: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University



Colors giving information about the variations in composition of the Mars surface. Pretty neat -. even if it isn't all blue...:-)

Stellar Violence

Stellar Violence



Credit: ESO
The Arches Cluster

Looks pretty!

Persian Gulf from Space

Oil Land in The Ocean



Credit: JAXA, ESA

'Fake' island in the Persian Gulf - another oil 'country'.

Mars Art

Mars Art



Valleys Carved into Elysium Mons
Credits: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/HiRise




HiRise produces the most wonderful pieces of Mars Art. Again and again.

London Curry

London Curry



Because of the curry hunt I now HAVE to revisit London. That and perhaps the Dunhuang starmap on exhibition at The British Library. But definitely because of The Big Curry Hunt.

This is the best restaurant guide ever. By far. Even if you hate Indian food or any kind of curry dish, you gotta like the writing on The Big Curry Hunt.

Dunhuang Star Map

Dunhuang



Gorgeous ancient Chinese star map. :-)

Mars Lake

Mars Lake



maybe...

Vela

Vela - Supernova Remnant




Credit: Thomas V Davis

Velvet Iris

Iris



Incredible Iris!

Transport

Stellare's Week-End Car - Special Educational Edition



One of my current projects is explaining what a climatologist is. There is so much confusion concerning climate change and who's right and who's got it all wrong I thought I'd help out with a clear definition of climatology and who among us can call ourselves climatologist. At least we can identify the experts, I thought...

I had no idea I would need to define what a car is, though. I thought it was a pretty straight forward concept, but clearly I am totally out of touch with reality. I found the ultimate proof of my need of disillusion reading Xineann's ideas of a car.

So, back to basics, folks. Here are the main means of transportation. I limit myself to stay on planet Earth (that is including the near atmosphere, mind you). Being me I have chosen illustrative examples capable of the most delightful acceleration.

Boats - transport you on water (normally - we've seen James Bond attempting using boats on land as well, but that is rather the exception).

Sailing Hobie Cat


I used to sail Hobie Cat when I was younger. Let me tell you, we totally 'killed' the wind-surfers - and they were understandably so pissed. I don't think you can get a more intimate connection with acceleration and speed than when sailing a catamaran.

Trains - transport you on land on predefined tracks.



Maglev



Here is the world's fastest train (in regular traffic); the Shanghai Maglev. Totally awesome. Totally levitating. I went to Shanghai just to take a ride on this one. Twice.

Cars - transport you on land on predefined tracks called roads - though oftentimes less well defined as railroad tracks.

Fast car


SSC Ultimate Aero

This is what normally appears on Stellare's Week-end Car here represented by the fastest car in 2007-2008. Blue, of course.

Planes - transport you in the near Earth atmosphere. In principle without tracks and thus free to move in all three dimensions. However, due to heavy traffic in the air their paths are highly regulated (except over The Panhandle, Texas, USA).

Europe

Europe from Space



Credit: ESA






Excellent shot of Europe. :-)

Stars in Blue

Stars in Blue

Earth Shaking

Shake Ya A..ahem..Earth!



Credit: James Canvin



I give you the next episode of A Green Space - A Green Earth where I talk about earthquakes and how space based Earth observations are saving our a...es. Well, some of us and even more in the future. When I'm not surfing the social internets, I'm contemplating over how the hell we can use GPS to spot a naughty fault before it starts shaking...Sort of. :-)

Bubble Fun

Bubbles in Space



Somebody told me there was a bubble day....:-)

There are bubbles in cosmic champagne, too. :-)

Funny Asteroids

Funny Peanuts?





Nope. Asteroids, dude!

Blue Ladies Tiles

Ladies in Blue



Tiling Up! :-)

She makes pretty things - everywhere.

Blue Sun

Sun in Blue



Credits: SOHO

Arctic Cooperation

Hectic Arctic



Cartographer: Hugo Ahlenius

Cooperative criss crossing in the Arctic! Yet another set of gorgeous maps from one of my favorite cartographer - at Nordpil.

New Entanglements?

Captivating Entanglements



or something...

I love, love, love physics! :-)

Entangled atoms?

zzzz

Chilling Cat



An example to follow...

In The Future...

Me in A Zillion Years...:-)



Well, at least I plan to reach a 100...and I will play with the gadget whatever they may be by that time. Maybe a personal rocket I could take for spin in the Universe. Fly myself to the Moon...:-)