Carter Emmart is the Director of Astrovisualization at the American Museum of Natural History.
In 1998, the museum and NASA teamed up to create a stunning 3-D map of the universe that shows where the Earth is compared to the universe and how incredibly vast the known universe really is.
Emmert mentioned in the video that "what the world needs now is a sense of being able to look at ourselves in this much larger condition now and a much larger sense of what home is."
He unveiled his amazing atlas at a TED talk two years ago, and it still boggles the mind how comprehensive and visually attractive the map is.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-3-d-map-of-the-universe-2012-7?op=1#ixzz2017d5pIW
Amazing 3-D Map Of The Universe. Business Insider. by Shlomo Sprung. July 6, 2012, 4:29 PM
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