Thanks to The Science Pundit for alerting me to this amazing animation (now also for sale as screensaver):
Secret Worlds: The Universe Within:
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
Check it out. As Javier says: Exponential Zoom from Milky Way to Quark!
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