Google Earth Goes Into Space

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Google Earth added a really cool feature, turning the satellite camera around and looking to the stars. You’ll need to install the latest version of Google Earth, which has a button on the toolbar to activate the new feature. The button will switch you to the view of the sky above your current location, so you can see the sky above your home (though probably without the environmental and light pollution that normally gets in the way.
When looking at the sky, you can activate various layers and zoom in on them as you would if you, too, had a mega-billion dollar space telescope. Layers include constellations (which maps them out for you), “backyard astronomy”, the Hubble showcase (which overlays better images from Hubble in some areas with bubbles for more info), the moon and the planets (which has a time slider so you can […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg