This is one of the many places where stars are born. Here, at the Orion Nebula, stars are born constantly, forming a colony of young, hot stars, Their brightness changes all the time. The picture was taken with the Spitzer Telescope in space. For details, please download and enlarge image.

On June 24, 2010, powerful Hurricane Celia spanned hundreds of miles over the Pacific ocean, at sustained winds of 135 mph. This image was taken at 1:55 pm Pacific Daylight Time. In retrospect, my sister and her daughter were flying across the Pacific ocean from HK to Vancouver. 

Flying by of Saturn's moon Enceladus

Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, The Cassini spacecraft flew by Saturn's moon Enceladus sending images and data of the encounter back to Earth. The spacecraft passed about 120,000 miles over the Saturn��s moon. At its closest point, Cassini flew about 60 miles above the surface of Enceladus.This passage took the spacecraft on its deepest plunge yet through the

heart of the plume shooting out from the South Polar Region. Sunlight brightens a crescent curve along the edge of Saturn's moon Enceladus and highlights its misty plume.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

 Ares I rocket will be the rocket used to launch Orion into orbit in the Constellation space program, the next major NASA program. Ares rocket is named for the Greek god associated with Mars. It will return humans to the Moon and beyond. including taking humans to the Mars and other destinations.  On Oct 8. 2009, a key motor for the Ares I rocket was tested. This ullage settling motor is a small, solid rocket motor that will provide the forward motion needed to push fuel to the bottom of the fuel tanks during the launch to orbit of the Ares I rocket.

Ares I-X launch , a major test of the rocket, has been re-scheduled  for tomorrow, pending weather condition at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Go, Ares I-X go!

Andromeda in Ultraviolet

In a break from its usual task of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever attained in the ultraviolet. The galaxy, known as M31 in the constellation Andromeda, is the largest and closest spiral galaxy to our own. This mosaic of M31 merges 330 individual images taken by Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope. The image shows a region 200,000 light-years wide and 100,000 light-years high (100 arcminutes by 50 arcminutes).

Image Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler (GSFC) and Erin Grand (UMCP)

Stephen --

This morning, Michelle and I awoke to some surprising and humbling news. At 6 a.m., we received word that I'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize -- men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.

But I also know that throughout history the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes.

That is why I've said that I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations and all peoples to confront the common challenges of the 21st century. These challenges won't all be met during my presidency, or even my lifetime. But I know these challenges can be met so long as it's recognized that they will not be met by one person or one nation alone.

This award -- and the call to action that comes with it -- does not belong simply to me or my administration; it belongs to all people around the world who have fought for justice and for peace. And most of all, it belongs to you, the men and women of America, who have dared to hope and have worked so hard to make our world a little better.

So today we humbly recommit to the important work that we've begun together. I'm grateful that you've stood with me thus far, and I'm honored to continue our vital work in the years to come.

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

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Ted Kennedy's story is a life story of being human, a story many of us may have also. But his story is  told live in the public for fifty years. It is a drama of fame and power, of a privileged family and the last son, of many major personal and family tragedies , of tiredless pursuit of ideal and dream, of courage to fight a good fight, of struggles with prsonal weakness and failures, of drug, crime, charity and national honor......It's an American story of our time, touching, because it's all too human!     ~ Stevelau2009

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TEHRAN, June 15 (Reuters) - Iranian demonstrators called for more mass protests ... killed a man .....

WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - Obama... "positive movement"...  Netanyahu, ...endorsed a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict

RENTON, NJ June 15, 2009 (WPVI) --  gas prices have risen for the past 48 days straight ...

PRETORIA, South Africa June 15 Beats U.S. in Confederations Cup ITALY 3, UNITED STATES 1

WASHINGTON (Reuters) Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:21pm EDT -North Korea's May nuclear test few kilotons:  20 kilotons equal to the U.S. atom bomb dropped on Japan 

 BBC.co.uk June 15-Chinese President Hu Jintao in Russia for the ninth Shanghai Co-operation Organization summit. 

Hong Kong June 15- HK Feb Jobless Rate Soars to 32-month High as the economic recession facing China��s premier city deepens

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Earth Day falls on this week, but the Earth may lose this interesting person, reportedly ��very ill�� at this moment. A victim of Lou Gehrig��s (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), Stephen Hawking is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge, a prestigious post held by Newton. During the years when I was fascinated by astrophysics and cosmology, I have heard many interesting stories about him. He bet on black hole with a year subscription of Playboy, and he would meet Marilyn Monroe rather than Newton. Most woukd agree that he is possibly the greatest living scientist on Earth. One of his great achievements, together with mathematician Roger Penrose, has been to prove that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity means space and time has a beginning in the "Big Bang" and ends in black holes. His book ��A Brief History of Time," a layman's guide to the origins of the universe, is a modern classic.

There are a few truly bright stars in our generation. This one is falling.

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Ryan Hall is looking to win his first Boston Marathon

Ryan Hall is a running sensation. At age 25, he was already the second-fastest American marathoner ever -- a title achieved after only three attempts at the distance. He was named "the future of marathon running" by former Olympic champion Stefano Baldini, prior to the disappointing 10^th place in Beijing. Here is his record:

Galaxy Triplet ARP 274

On April 1-2, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the winning target in the Space Telescope Science Institute��s 'You Decide' competition in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA).

The winner is a group of galaxies called Arp 274. The striking object received 67,021 votes out of the nearly 140,000 votes cast for the six candidate targets.

Arp 274, also known as NGC 5679, is a system of three galaxies that appear to be partially overlapping in the image, although they may be at somewhat different distances. The spiral shapes of two of these galaxies appear mostly intact. The third galaxy (to the far left) is more compact, but shows evidence of star formation.

Two of the three galaxies are forming new stars at a high rate. This is evident in the bright blue knots of star formation that are strung along the arms of the galaxy on the right and along the small galaxy on the left.

The largest component is located in the middle of the three. It appears as a spiral galaxy, which may be barred. The entire system resides at about 400 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Virgo.

Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 was used to image Arp 274. Blue, visible and infrared filters were combined with a filter that isolates hydrogen emission. The colors in this image reflect the intrinsic color of the different stellar populations that make up the galaxies. Yellowish older stars can be seen in the central bulge of each galaxy. A bright central cluster of stars pinpoint each nucleus. Younger blue stars trace the spiral arms, along with pinkish nebulae that are illuminated by new star formation. Interstellar dust is silhouetted against the starry population. A pair of foreground stars inside our own Milky Way are at far right.

The International Year of Astronomy is the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first observations with a telescope. People around the world came together to participate in the IYA's 100 Hours of Astronomy, April 2 to 5. This global astronomy event was geared toward encouraging as many people as possible to experience the night sky.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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While most people are celebrating the coming of 2009 and greeting each other Happy New Year, a war broke out in the Middle East. Rockets were shot by the Hamas at Isreal. After several days of air strike, Isreali troops are invading the Gaza strip. UN Security Council is in emergency session. US presidential power is in transition, an awkward moment! While Bush is worrying about his own legacy, Obama is waiting on the side at a Hawaiian resort! Another bailout up to 1 trillion is being debated, in order to pull the once upon a time the all mighty American car industry and the worsening recession out of collapse.Can the US Treasury keep printing dollar bills?! Can the Isreali and Palestinian children forget the injuries their country inflicted on each other when they grow up?

God have mercy on us!

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The baton has been passed!

A New Era has begun! 

Obama came on stage with Michele on victory night

Tuesday November 4, 2008, is going to be a historic day, no matter how you look at it.

The world have come a long way in the last 50 years. Human civilization have already advanced to an age of globalization on the one hand, and have been able to leave the Planet Earth for the  exploration of  Space on the other.

Many developments, such as Global  economy, Global warming, internet, telecommunication via satellite, GPS, computer technology, energy resources�K�K..have created an environment in which, we as humans, have come to realized that we all live in the same planet, called Earth. Looking back at this Planet Earth from the Moon, and watching the phenomenal changes in deep space through Hubble, Spitz, Chandra and other telescopes, we have gained a different perspective as to what the Universe is , and where we are. The human beings have begun leaving the Planet Earth, just like Columbus preparing for his trip  several hundred years ago. Presently, we are way beyond Newton��s Law of Motion;  beyond Einstein��s Relativity, and Big Bang. We are confronting with the dark hole, the dark energy�K�K�KNobody can slow down our advancing world!

Since WWII, for the past fifty years, USA, and its president have become the leader of the western world. They had indeed led the advancing world  well.

But, USA, as a country, has been weakened in the recent past, and is on a spiral downward turn. The global economy is critically sick, and needed resuscitation just recently. Our planet is in peril. The many challenges facing the new US President, both national and international, are enormous and urgent.

After today, the world will enter a new phase of its history. The Americans, and the world,deeply need, and are ready for a great leader.

I have voted for Barack Obama, and I have supported him with some donation and my time. I think he offers the best hope we have at this time. I believe he is gifted with the potential to be a great leader. I have written to him saying so.

Today,the United States as well as the world have come to a new frontier; the torch of the human civilization has been passed to the younger generation.

Can he do it? Only time can tell, and I pray that he can and he will.

May God bless our new President, bless Amrerica and  bless our World!

I am glad I have witnessed this historic day.

Oct. 24: When a woman decided to go public with her rare birth defect, she never expected it would result in finding a friend just like her halfway across the world.

This news story reminds everybody to be appreciative and thankful of what we have. It shows us that we can always see the sunshine even in rainy days.

Here is the video clip. Highly recommended!Ctrl + click http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/27366604#27366604

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US Congress finally passed the rescue/bail-out package!

$700 billion!

Looks like Bush have applied a pressure dressing on the bleeding patient, who, unfortunately, is dying!

Washington Mutual, AIG, Lehman Brothers,Wachovia, Freddie......, all these once upon a time giants, are either gravely ill or have gone! Even GE is in trouble now!

Bush will sign off soon (can't wait!), passing the buck to, I think, Obama. 

Can he save the dying patient like, hey, a surgeon?

Nobody have the crystal ball.

Obama is something, though! I have signed up for his compaign and donated in the primary. Since then, there are emails from Michelle and him all the time.

If invited, I will definitely attend his inauguration ball.

Getting my tux ready now, haha!