Oh. Em. Gee. If you have a spare ten minutes to lose yourself in a parallel world, this is where you want to go:

Promise me you’ll watch it in full-screen mode.

…one day at a time.

I’m addicted to this sound.

Swirling skies in the Atlantic OceanQueensland and the Great Barrier Reef

Strait of Gibraltar

The Ganges Delta, India

Electric blue blooms off Ireland

Check out these spectacular images of Earth taken from the European Space Agency’s satellite, Envisat. I was alerted of the eye-popping wonders by good friend DC, thinking I may like them. Damn right I do.

To celebrate ten years whizzing around our planet, Wired Magazine published the pics. Here’s what they wrote about it:

Ten years ago on March 1, the European Space Agency launched an 8-ton satellite called Envisat that would deliver back to Earth some of the most beautiful images of our planet taken from space. Since then, Envisat has orbited Earth more than 50,000 times and has lived twice as long as planned. The satellite has more than seven instruments on board that can use radar to see through clouds, capture ocean color and land cover, monitor the ozone layer and atmospheric pollutants, measure thermal-infrared radiation, and register surface topography.   Wired Magazine.

See more here. Seriously, check them out large scale. So beautiful. What a planet we reside on.

…About The Universe. As explained simply by astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and presented beautifully by video editor Max Schlickenmeyer:

Be sure to watch it in full-screen-mode. It’s ace.

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those that matter don’t mind and those that mind don’t matter!”  Dr Seuss

This quote really strikes a chord with me today. YEAH Dr Seuss!

Beautiful time lapse photography of the recent Southern Lights show off the coast of Victoria, Australia.

After chasing it for more than two years I was finally rewarded with two displays of Aurora Australis (Southern lights) within a week visible from Mornington peninsula, not far from Melbourne. The nights were warm an clear and the Moon was not in the sky either – I could not have asked for better conditions.

The red color of this aurora is caused by the charged particles from the Sun exciting oxygen atoms high in the Earth’s atmosphere. Hopefully there will be more to come as Sun’s activity increases in 2012-13.

Being able to photograph it all night I came up with a nice video. The brighter Aurora happened on January 22nd and the smaller one, featured in the middle section, was from January 16th, followed by a rather bright Moonrise.

See more of Alex Cherney’s amzaing work here.

Revel in the glow of the amazingly talented Walk Off The Earth crew. Gives me goosebumps. Will be keeping my peeps on what these kids punch out next.