a journey to the stars

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) left us this precious little xmas gift: a 6 minute journey through time and space, from the Himalayas to the distant quasars, the farthest objects we can see.
The film is part of an exhibit - Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe - at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York through May 2010.
The AMNH and the Hayden Planetarium have been involved, since 1998, in a three-dimensional mapping of the Universe. A copy of this Digital Universe Atlas is available for download (here).