Big Picture Moments to Get You Inspired and Exploring
Andi Tillmann and Flo Berghammer try out a promising looking ridge line in Iceland.
Iceland’s central desert plateau covers 40,000 square kilometres and contains everything you’d ever want to see in Iceland. There are 20 volcanoes to choose from, ten glaciers, and a handful of geothermal sites that would easily give Rotorua a run for its money.
It’s been described as deafiningly quiet and pure, well worth the visit if you can find your way in via 4×4.
Image by Toby Cowley / Red Bull Content Pool
Blooming Heck
Image by François de Ribaucourt / Red Bull Content Pool
Tom de Dorlodot paraglides over tulip fields in ‘t Zand, the Netherlands.
Tom knew that the short season of explosive colour was coming to the Netherlands, so didn’t waste any time getting over there to snap these incredible shots, where the earth’s surface gets turned into a barcode
of colours.
The flowers here will be exported all over the world. In fact, they are the largest exporter of flowers in the world controlling around 52-55% of the market. Two billion tulips are sent away every year. Their largest competitor is Colombia with 15%.
Nebulous Origin
IMAGE by: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Recently Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera set the astronomy world on fire with its incredible high detail shots of distant phenomena. What we’re looking at is the centre of NGC 3132, a huge nebula made over thousands of years by an ejecting star in the lower left of the image. The bright star in the centre is the sculpture of the piece, stirring and creating rings of turbulence. The two stars are in a locked orbit, and the ejecting star blasts in all different directions to create a jagged ring shape.
The deepness of the teal colour in the centre indicates gas and dust density, with light being unable to break free.
One of the most mind blowing parts of this image is the straight line in the upper left. That’s an entire galaxy seen on its edge. There are of course other galaxies dotting the image, seen from above and more disk shaped. Further away galaxies display themselves in a red colour.