Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Midnight Sky on Orientus III


Night sky on Orientus III in the Trifid Nebula. The sky shows off the colors of the nearby nebula.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Blue Giant Planet


Morilius V orbits a blue-star in the Gamma Quadrant of the Milky Way. The monument is to the first colonists that arrived here in 2772. Their star sports enormous sunspots.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

April Sunset on Rochella III


Rochella III is so earth-like the early colonists used the same names for the months of the year. The planet is also in the Andromeda Galaxy. It's nearly identical twin, Rochella II, shines as an evening star.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Martian Canal With Red Weed


This photo was taken 07/04/2576 during the 500th anniversary of the first Martian Colony. Canals crisscross the Red Planet much as Percival Lowell envisioned in the early 1900's. A curious red weed, as mentioned in H.G Well's The War of the Worlds, chokes this canal. The sun shines through the dusty martian sky.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Renoir World


Renoir World was settled during the Second Wave in 3166. It orbits a star in the Sombrero Galaxy. The vegetation reminded the first settlers of a Renoir painting.

Oceania


Unlucky Oceania is a waterworld. It orbits a red dwarf and a pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The world is bathed in deadly radiation.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Hot Jupiter Lava Flow and Volcano


A very hot planet! It orbits its sun once every three days at a distance of 23 million miles. The glowing planet to the upper right is even closer. The planet is in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Alpha, Beta and Gamma Centauri


A lifeless, icy moon orbits the triple Centauri system. There is an alien monitoring outpost here.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Radioactive Ruins of Philadelphia 3010


The ruins of Philadelphia still glow an angry orange even after 1,000 years. The city was destroyed in 2010 by a 20 megaton warhead during the first days of The Great Change. The white lines are the remains of its empty streets.

Tidal Wave Strikes East Coast of USA on April Fools Day 2012


A massive two-mile high tsunami will drown the East Coast in 2012. The remains of Atlantic City show at the top of the photo.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

A Space Bird Flys Through The Whirlpool Galaxy


A common space bird flys with a comet in a starry region of the Whirlpool Galaxy. The dark circle is the remains of a recent supernova.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Martian Sunset, South Pole


Beautiful, but very cold! The distant sun sets at the Martian South Pole. The blue ice is frozen carbon dioxide.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Site of First Earth Landing on Cydonia


The obelisk marks the spot where the first colonists touched down on Mars on 07/04/2076. You can see Earth as a blue ball above the monument. The photo was taken in 2208 after a century of terraforming.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Dawn on Beryllia III


Stunning dawn on a beach on Beryllia!! This is a moon that orbits the orange Jupiter-like planet. in the sky. The planet is also being eclipsed by another of its many moons. The whole system orbits a red giant sun over 50,000 light years from Earth. One of the jewels of the Milky Way!

River Planet


River Planet is in the Hydra star cluster. The planet has 15,000 stars as neighbors within one light year and stars light up the night sky. There is only one main river on this world and it stretches for 4.000 miles.

Lost Van Gogh


This is the final Van Gogh and the only known photograph. The original painting was destoyed by the artist before he died