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Vasav is a 22 year old guy from Bangalore (aamchi Mumbai), KA, India

Curious about everything around me.Dunno how it is helpful but it sure is fun!!!. Three songs that define me completely 1.Dream On 2.Born to be Wild 3.I still haven't found what I am looking for Almost forgot Ajihad is a character from a book.

  • The Big Picture photography competition: round 43 -...

    Rated Mar 26 2009 • 2 reviews • photography, marine life • telegraph.co.uk

                 A Shoal of Rays





                                                                 A shoal of rays crowd the glass at the Georgia Aquarium

                                                        Coral Leather from Manchester

  • Chandra Press Room :: Erratic Black Hole Regulates Itself...

    Rated Mar 26 2009 • 1 review • space exploration, science, black holes • harvard.edu

    What do you Know >>> Black Hole Regulates its own Growth

    From the Page >>>

    Black holes come in many sizes: the supermassive ones, including those in quasars, which weigh in at millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, and the much smaller stellar-mass black holes which have measured masses in the range of about 7 to 25 times the Sun's mass.




    An Artist's Impression of a Supermassive Blackhole.Some stellar-mass black holes launch powerful jets of particles and radiation, like seen in quasars, and are called "micro-quasars".




    The famous micro Quasar GS-1915 contains a black hole about 14 times the mass of the Sun that is feeding off material from a nearby companion star. As the material swirls toward the black hole, an accretion disk forms.










    Chandra, with its spectrograph, has observed GRS 1915 eleven times since its launch in 1999.

    These studies reveal that the jet in GRS 1915 may be periodically choked off when a hot wind, seen in X-rays, is driven off the accretion disk around the black hole. The wind is believed to shut down the jet by depriving it of matter that would have otherwise fueled it. Conversely, once the wind dies down, the jet can re-emerge.










                               Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/Harvard/J.Neilsen); Optical & IR (Palomar DSS2)

  • English : PRESS

    Rated Mar 25 2009 • 1 review • space exploration, science • ac.il

            Largest Exploding Star >>>

    Star equivalent to that of 50 Suns explodes and collapses in on itself,resulting in a large black hole



    This spectacular Supernova was observed by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of

    Science     and San Diego State University.

  • Gorillas get drunk on bamboo sap - Telegraph

    Rated Mar 24 2009 • 2 reviews • animals, photos, gorilla, photography • telegraph.co.uk

           Drunk Gorillas



                                        Gorillas get high on Bamboo sap,some of them are totally out




                                This one in particular looks ashamed of himself...Who cares...Hic!!!!

  • Pearl Studded Rug Passion | AtticMag

    Rated Mar 24 2009 • 1 review • history, arts • atticmag.com

           The Pearl Studded Rug from Baroda

                             The Pearl Carpet of Baroda was commissioned by India's wealthy Maharaja                                  
                                      of Baroda as a gift to sit at the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad.



         An estimated two million natural seed pearls known as “Basra” pearls form the field of the rug

         while the     border detail has small diamond rosettes which are embellished with sapphires,

         rubies and emeralds set in gold.

  • Saturday volcano art & The Volcanism Blog

    Rated Mar 23 2009 • 1 review • science, art, volcano, geology • wordpress.com

            Volcano Art



    Xavier Della Gatta, `Eruption of Vesuvius' (1794). Watercolour.






    Serene Artwork of the mighty volcanoes through the ages.
    To me they are the hands of the creator having the power to vanquish and to resurrect at the same time, and this coming from an agnostic.





















    The event that begged me to make this beautiful discovery is the recent Hunga Ha'apai eruption an underwater active volcano on the 18th of March.     From the images it is clear that the volcano has two vents and the plume with a wide base rose from the sea surface and mixed with meteorological clouds.













    Smoke is seen after an underwater volcano erupted in Hunga Ha'apai, Tonga March 18, 2009. The eruption is only 34 nautical miles off the coast of the Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa.







    Recent reports have established that the island is completely destroyed but the volume of the rock and ash coming from the vents has completely filled the gap between the offshore vent and Hunga Ha'apai, increasing the island's land mass by hundreds of square meters, hence destruction and creation at the same time.



    You can see larger images here

    boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/undersea_eruptions_near_tonga.html [boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/undersea_eruptions_near_tonga.html]

    I leave you with yet another beautiful Volcano Art



       The Great
     
     "Mount Etna"

  • ESO - ESO 11/09 - A Curious Pair of Galaxies

    Rated Mar 22 2009 • 1 review • astronomy, space exploration, space • eso.org

               Intermingling Chaotic Galaxy Duo - Arp 261


    The 70 million light-years distant Arp 261 is a chaotic structure formed from the slow motion interaction of two galaxies.Though the possibility of individual stars colliding is highly unlikely the large gas clouds and dust crash and lead to the creation of very hot stars .




    The galaxy pictures in Halton Arp's catalogue of "Peculiar Galaxies" which appeared in the 1960s.

    Instrument :- FORS2
    Credit :- ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT), at the Paranal Observatory in Chile

  • Art in Nature

    Rated Feb 21 2009 • 2 reviews • photography • wordpress.com

    Ahh.... Beautiful

  • Google Ocean could help protect the seas - Telegraph

    Rated Feb 03 2009 • 1 review • science, google, ocean, google earth • telegraph.co.uk

      Google Earth goes beneath the waves...Bloop!!!

  • Hemant Karkare! Tribute To A Hero By Mustafa Khan

    Rated Nov 29 2008 • 1 review • hero, terrorist attacks, mumbai • countercurrents.org

                  Hemant Karkare -- >>> Tribute To A Hero

    A valiant officer of the ATS(Anti terrorist squad) who died in the line of duty.Remember him for his courage and the devotion to his work.