Weirdest Planets

An hour long National Geographic documentary on recent discoveries of planets and their strange existence around alien stars.  It is amazing that in less then 20 years since humans discovered a planets orbiting an alien star we have uncovered so many amazing and totally unique alien worlds and possibilities.

National Geographic Photo Competition

National Geographic is holding a photo competition of the best reader submitted photographs or 2011. You can search through multiple galleries and even help out the judging by voting on National Geographic.com.  If you click on any of the images below you will be taken to a gallery by In Focus, of larger, high quality images, which is a good, quick summary of the many photos submitted for the contest.

Here is last years winner, an aerial view of Dubai by Wijnad Van Till.