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Thanks to The Adventure Blog for the heads up on this extremely interesting video. Made for the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, this six-minute video of the Digital Universe Atlas (the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe) takes you out of this world and into the far reaches of the universe as we know it. When you travel from the Himalayas to the Qasars (the farthest celestial objects we can see) and back, it's hard not to feel just a tiny bit minuscule in the grand scheme of things. Check it out...




From the American Museum of Natural History: The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.