Mr. Boulanger, Computer Teacher

All my students have had a chance to look at this incredible animation of the universe as we know. This is a full blown 3D map of the Universe to scale and with exact coordinates. You will be able to follow your ascent from the Himalayas, through the solar system, pass the Milky Way and beyond the afterglow of the original light from the Big Bang.

From this video, we also talked about:

How to spot the Milky Way – From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

The black hole in the center of the Milky Way: From the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7774287.stm

The Voyager I and II explorations – More information from the NASA website: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/fastfacts.html

Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence as a screen-saver – SETI@Home from University of Berkeley: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Amrit also found a related series of videos which you could be interested in:

The Naked Science series from National Geographic: YouTube channel