"Dramatic 3-D videos, created from actual data, show the origins of the universe. Now playing on screens at SLAC, as well as museums in San Francisco and New York. (...) Diaphanous veils of semi-transparent fluorescing gas and dust swirl hypnotically among exploding stars; colliding galaxies dance a cosmic do-si-do before they coalesce. These are some of the compelling scenes shown in the second-floor Visualization Lab of SLAC's Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC.) (...) "It's an immersive environment," Abel said. "You can explore three-dimensional data, 'Avatar'-style. It's wonderful to have the sensation of being inside the cosmological data." KIPAC's newly redesigned website http://kipac.stanford.edu/kipac... features an elegant gallery http://kipac.stanford.edu/kipac... for the movies and images. (...) As Hahn put it, "These videos aren't just screensavers. They show us how the universe really works." - Amira