Saturday, October 22, 2011

The Tandav , The Third Eye & The Sudarshan

Recently I saw some amazing photographs of distant space released by NASA. I gave titles to some of the photographs, from the Hindu Mythology.

The Tandav (तांडव):


Image of a pillar of star birth, three light-years high, depicting how scorching radiation and fast winds (streams of charged particles) from super-hot newborn stars in the nebula are shaping and compressing the pillar, causing new stars to form within it.


The Third Eye of Shiva (तीसरी आँख) 


Helix nebula, a cosmic starlet often photographed by amateur astronomers for its vivid colors and eerie resemblance to a giant eye.


The Sudarshan Chakra of Lord Vishnu (सुदर्शन चक्र)

A large galaxy with a well defined spiral structure over 60,000 light-years across