This was a first for me. The images in the video below are real. They are images (many from the Hubble telescope) patched into a virtual galaxy so we can click our way across the Milky Way to seek out a very particular, very distant star. "What you see here," says author Michael Benson, "is a Genesis. Not ours, someone else's."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125322033
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Mysterious cosmic 'dark flow' tracked deeper into universe
ScienceDaily (2010-03-11) -- Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study tracks this collective motion -- dubbed the "dark flow" -- to twice the distance originally reported.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100310162829.htm#
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100310162829.htm#
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