Google Sky lands on the web

Posted Mar 13th 2008 11:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Google, Search

About a half a year after adding stars, constellations, and all sorts of astronomical data to Google Earth, Google has launched a web based version of Google Sky. The interface is similar to Google Maps. You can drag and drop the sky to see different items, and you can search for locations by typing in terms like "Mars," or "constellation."

There are also a series of galleries highlighting some of the coolest views gathered from Hubble and other telescopes. You can toggle between naked eye, infrared, microwave, ultraviolet, and x-ray views. Google has also integrated an Earth & Sky podcast directly into the site.

[via Google Lat Long Blog]

Tags: google-earth, google-maps, google-sky

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-14-2008 @ 9:00AM

corrine said...

Am I the only one seeing little Firefox logos as stars....?

3-14-2008 @ 7:15PM

michael said...

I bet this was directly to compete with WWT.

But based on earlier videos of WWT, I still think WWT looks more nicer to use and has far more advanced features than Google Sky. But I guess Google Sky seems adequate enough.

Can't wait for WWT to come out.

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