1 trillion stars in the Andromeda galaxy

The astronomers confirmed that there are roughly 1 trillion stars in the galaxy.
Our Milky Way galaxy is estimated to house a couple of hundred billion stars.
NASA - Andromeda Adrift in Sea of Dust in New NASA Image
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/spitzer-20060605.html

China town in Yokohama, Japan

 
 
 
  

completion of the orbiting laboratory by 2010

The sequence, including 16-shuttle-flights, foresees launch of the European Columbus Laboratory module on the 7th shuttle flight of the sequence and launch of the Japanese experiment module and associated equipment on the 8th, 9th and 12th shuttle flights. The assembly sequence provides almost a year's cushion for completion of assembly by 2010.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

moondust smell like gunpowder?

Moondust. "I wish I could send you some," says Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. Just a thimbleful scooped fresh off the lunar surface. "It's amazing stuff."
Feel it--it's soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive.
Taste it--"not half bad," according to Apollo 16 astronaut John Young.
Sniff it--"it smells like spent gunpowder," says Cernan.
NASA - Apollo Chronicles: The Mysterious Smell of Moondust
smell of moondust

Next Stop: Pluto

The New Horizons spacecraft will cross the entire span of the solar system and conduct flyby studies of Pluto and Charon in 2015.
Mission Milestones
February 2007 Jupiter gravity assist
March 2007 - June 2015 Interplanetary cruise
July 2015 Pluto-Charon encounter
2016-2020 Kuiper Belt objects encounter
NASA - New Horizons
newhorizons

Stardust observation on Jan. 15 in the Utah desert

The Stardust observation mission flight will take place the early morning of Sunday, Jan. 15, 2006.
NASA DC-8 aircraft on the 'Stardust observation rehearsal flights,"
Wednesday, Jan 11 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. PST, and
Thursday, Jan. 12, from 11:45 p.m. PST to Jan. 13, 3:30 a.m. PST.
NASA - NASA Aircraft Crew to Observe Incoming Stardust Capsule
2006/06_01AR.html

On Jan. 15 in the Utah desert, barring a mishap, they will have another. The first-ever mission to fly to deep space and steal samples from one of these cosmic travelers will be returning home.
Spacecraft to Bring Home Comet Dust and Clues
washingtonpost

neuron growth in mature brains

Despite the prevailing belief that adult brain cells don't grow, a researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory reports in the Dec. 27 issue of Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology that structural remodeling of neurons does in fact occur in mature brains.
Researcher finds neuron growth in adult brain
http://www.physorg.com/news9388.html

Language colours vision
- The left brain may view the world through the prism of language.
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051219/full/051219-18.html