The Known Universe - "Inward" and "Outward"

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2010/12/nasa.html

The Known Universe, with "Inward" and "Outward" views as far as humankind can currently penetrate:
http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white

This webpage provides a scrollable trip to the known limits of space.

In addition to scrolling "in" and "out," you can click on any pictured "entity" in the entire panorama to learn more about it.

For example, I wanted to know more about "The Local Group" and "The Great Attractor."

Now I do.

And perhaps best of all, everything is contextualized - a tremendous boon for those who believe that "any text, without a context, is a pretext."

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2007/02/12/4351154-dust-in-gods-eye

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110424.html

http://www.yourdiscovery.com/photos/galleries/hubbles-greatest-photos/