Google's new astronomy search tool: "Sky"


	Google's new astronomy search tool: "Sky"

Mohir

8-22-2007 10:58 AM

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8-25-2007 5:54 AM

syncopath

seems sky may not be the limit .... ))

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Google is unveiling within Google Earth today a new service called Sky that will allow users to view the skies as seen from Earth. Like Google Earth, Sky will let users fly around and zoom in, exposing increasingly detailed imagery of some 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies.
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<A name="036971">“You will be able to browse into the sky like never before,” said Carol Christian, an astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute, a nonprofit academic consortium that supports the Hubble Space Telescope.
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<A name="036971">While other programs allow users to explore the skies, they typically combine a mix of representations of stars and galaxies that are overlaid with photographs, Ms. Christian said. “These are really the images of the sky. Everything is real.”</A></P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/21/googles_new_astronom.html"><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/technology/22sky.html?ex=1345435200&en=0b6f54fadae2b6af&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss" linkindex="44" set="yes">Link</A> to article, and you can get Sky by downloading the latest edition of Google Earth: <A href="http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html" linkindex="45" set="yes">Link</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C05DABFE-6812-47A9-8B65-63E2214295C6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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