3D Map Of The Universe - Or what we can see of it...

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics just released an enormous 3D map of the Universe. Or at least what we can see of it. The image map was compiled over a 6 year period taking photos of the sky. You know... With those big radio telescope camera thingies we see in all of the sci-fi movies where we make first contact, and then the aliens try to eat us all. Those things. Scientist hope to use this map to trace back the universe's movements over the last 6 billion years. They hope this data will give them insights to dark matter and dark energy.

The video is rather ani-climactic, but humbling to say the least. As you tour the skies in the video below, and realize that each one of those fuzz balls are an actually galaxy - ours alone is comprised of an estimated 100,000,000,000 stars - then you get a sense of just how really small you are.