there you go. >> let me introduce stephen strom. steve is a ph.d. astronomer from harvard university and he spent much of his career in new york, massachusetts and various other places back east and moved to to sun in 1998 and has been working for the national observatory. he has a distinguished career in astronomy but he is a renaissance man in a sense. he is combining both sides of his brain and spent the last 20 years as a photographer primarily landscape photography and has used that talent combined with other writers, putz to produce a series of books and photographs with some very interesting text to go with them. he will talk about the formation of the solar system and are there other solar systems like ours to be found? >> thanks. i hope you don't mind if i stand. i am feeling terribly comfortable in this chair. i am a little shorter than doug isbell. i will get on the same level in 5 stand up. after lecturing for the better part of 40 years it just happened. forgive me for that. one minor correction. we were in tucson from 1972-1983 and ret