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“Animated Flight through the Universe” - This is an amazing animated movie where you can fly through the Universe and see about 400,000 galaxies. “Credit: Miguel A. Aragón (Johns Hopkins University), Mark SubbaRao (Adler Planetarium), Alex Szalay (Johns Hopkins University), Yushu Yao (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NERSC), and the SDSS-III Collaboration. Usage Restrictions: None.”

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Astronomers release the largest ever 3-D map of the sky

“The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) has released the largest three-dimensional map of massive galaxies and distant black holes ever created. The new map pinpoints the locations and distances of over a million galaxies. It covers a total volume equivalent to that of a cube four billion light-years on a side.”

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