Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Google Earth to Get New 'Sky' Feature
Wednesday, August 22, 2007

LONDON — Popular mapping service
Google Earth will launch a new feature called Sky, a "virtual telescope" that the search engine hopes will turn millions of Internet users into stargazers.

Google (
GOOG), which created Google Earth to give Internet users an astronaut's view that can zoom to street level, said the service would be a playground for learning about space.

"Never before has a roadmap of the entire sky been made so readily available," said Dr. Carol Christian of the
Space Telescope Science Institute, who co-led the institute's Sky team. the rest image

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