Cosmography of the local universe highlights structures of local galaxies

[deeths]

http://irfu.cea.fr/cosmography

[deeths]

There's also an accompanying paper with the technical details at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.0091v1.pdf.

[Rickasaurus]

Awesome video, but somehow I don't think most of the audience here has the attention span to make it past the first few minutes.

[deeths → Rickasaurus]

That may be the case, but it's still pretty incredible to put the universe (even a small corner of it) into perspective. It was really interesting to me to put some of the larger local structures like the Great Attractor and the Southern Wall into relative context.