Here is pretty awesome website I found that lets you explore our Galaxy centered around our Solar System by Zooming in and Out with incredible detail, thought I'd share here. Play around with it, it's really cool.
http://stars.chromeexperiments.com/
...and damn that Galactic Core is bright.
One other thing that I found, it's called "If the Moon were only 1 PIXEL"
...it's an accurate scale model of the Solar System, lets you experience how vast the distances between planets really are by scrolling to the right.
http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pix ... ystem.html
Fun stuff!