Red Rocks Amphitheatre is considered by many as the greatest music venue in the world (including most of the people who submitted it). The naturally occurring amphitheatre is between two 320 foot monoliths, Ship Rock to the south and Creation Rock to the north, which provide excellent acoustics for live music.

Apparently you might recognise Red Rocks from the U2 live video and album “Under a Blood Red Sky”, which was filmed there way back in 1983. U2 must be getting really old by now

Thanks: shannon, Geoff, Yablo, Michael Sauers, Dgold, mz, Anne Dudfield, Matt Thompson

Check out this port in Qatar. Shake says:

Is that an oil spill in the water? Because it looks like that tanker is capsizing and some other small boats are trying to push it back.

We weren’t sure however. Could it not be that the tugs are just moving the tanker into place, and that the swirls in the water are formed by sediment being thrown up? Regardless, it’s a cool image.

A little further west is this burning thing, and along the coast a little is this really cool spout of water emptying into the sea. Can someone explain these sights?

Many thanks to Shake, Stephane and Todd Day.

Well here it is, the one that literally hundreds of you have submitted over the past few months. We held off posting it because it would be so much better to see this is high-res. However here it is (finally), the Arecibo radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. It is officially the largest single-dish radio telescope ever built; it’s 305 metres in diameter, 50 metres deep, and it covers an area of roughly 73,000 square metres! Wow, huge.

You may recognise the telescope from somewhere… this is the where they collect the data for SETI@home, it was in Contact and it was also used as Alec Trevelyan’s antenna in GoldenEye!

To make up for the poor resolution on this entry, here’s a super high-res aerial shot for you to investigate. The official site has loads of great images too, and the Wikipedia entry has all the facts and figures you could ever desire.

Apparently any person in the world may use the telescope, providing their proposal is selected by a review committee. Any ideas for how we might put it to good use?

Juan Cabanela might have been the very first person to send us this, so he’s getting the credit! Thanks to all of you who submitted it though.