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The Known Universe

Check out this amazing animated fly-through of the known universe, starting from Tibet and travelling 13.7 billion light years to our cosmic horizon, then back again. The video is from the American Museum Of Natural History using their four-dimensional mapping data to create an astronomically accurate map of the universe as we know it so far.

I have always thought that with so many galaxies and stars out there that there surely must be life out there somewhere. However, after watching this video it occurred to me that although it might indeed be out there, if it's 100,000,000 light years away the chances of bumping into it are pretty damn slim.

(via Dark Roasted Blend and kottke.org)