Space Rumors

Can you guess the name of this planet? Even though it seems something out of The Little Prince, this is our planet Earth. Don’t be shocked….it’s a small part of the earth integrated into a four image stereographic little planet projection. The fisheye image located at the central part points down; at the same time the neighboring wide angle images were taken at 30 degree tilts and digitally added later.

Some items like green grass, trees and dark shadows are surrounded at the image center near and far. At the top of the image, is a well lit Parkes Radio Telescope dish, in New South Wales, Australia. You can also see many jewels surrounding the sky at the night including the moon at 9pm, the small Magellanic cloud galaxy at 5pm and also the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy at 1:30 pm. You can see the complete picture HERE.