Google Sky - telescope from computer


	Google Sky - telescope from computer

ofcapri

9-17-2009 7:37 AM

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"Sky in Google Earth will foster and initiate new understanding of the universe by bringing it to everyone's home computer."

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also provides a reversed outlook that will let us look out into space
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