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 ChEyEnNe5030 rated 14 months ago -
From the page: "The constellations of Andromeda, Hydra and Vulpecula are now just a mouse click away for amateur star-gazers, following the launch of Google Sky.
The tool is an add-on to Google Earth, a program that allows users to search a 3D rendition of our planet's surface.
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- mitsy123 rated 14 months ago
- oh no i am obsessed by google earth as it is - adding constellations - OMG will i ever leave the house?
- carolsstudio rated 14 months ago
- Google Earth given celestial viewThe constellations of Andromeda, Hydra and Vulpecula are now just amouse click away for amateur star-gazers, following the launch ofGoogle Sky.The tool is an add-on to Google Earth, a program that allows users to search a 3D rendition of our planet's surface. Sky will allow astronomers a chance to glide through images of more than one million stars and 200 million galaxies.Optional layers allow users to explore images from the Hubble Space Telescope as well as animations of lunar cycles. "So rather than using it to view imagery of the Earth, use it to view imagery of space."Sky is not the first time Google has ventured into space. In March 2006, the company launched Google Mars which allows users to explore the surface of the Red Planet. Another service, Google Moon, lets users view the sites of the Apollo moon landings. Both services use data from the US Space Agency Nasa, with which Google signed an agreement in December 2006. The Space Agreement Act was intended to put "the most useful of Nasa's information on the internet".
- ChEyEnNe5030 rated 14 months ago
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From the page: "The constellations of Andromeda, Hydra and Vulpecula are now just a mouse click away for amateur star-gazers, following the launch of Google Sky.
The tool is an add-on to Google Earth, a program that allows users to search a 3D rendition of our planet's surface.
Sky will allow astronomers a chance to glide through images of more than one million stars and 200 million galaxies.
Optional layers allow users to explore images from the Hubble Space Telescope as well as animations of lunar cycles.
"The basic idea is to take Google Earth and turn it on its head," Ed Parsons, Geospatial technologist at Google told the BBC News website.
"So rather than using it to view imagery of the Earth, use it to view imagery of space."
Dr John Mason of the British Astronomical Association, Britain's largest body for amateur astronomers said: "Light pollution and air pollution is now so bad in many areas that all you can see when you look up is a few dozen stars.
"If this helps people to realise just what they are missing, it is a jolly good thing.""
This is just great!
- JD001 rated 14 months ago
- This is so cool...
- AgentV rated 14 months ago
- cool!
- davepdotorg rated 14 months ago
- Finally! FINALLY!
- Whskr rated 14 months ago
- Google Earth looks up to the stars on this BBC News page. It explains the concept and its competitors. How Google Sky hopes to be mass market
- mogfather rated 14 months ago
- ace!
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