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Google sky at sky.google.com is a treat for students and astronomers

 March 14, 2008 5 Comments

Google Skyweb version is now available at sky.google.com.This was announced through the official google blog.

Google sky is a masterpiece from Google.Students interested in astronomy would love Google sky as one can search and view all the planets in the solar system in Google sky. 
 

Google sky also has a collection of the most stunning Hubble telescope images
 

One can also listen to Google sky podcasts and explore the wonderful historical maps of the sky.The web edition of Google sky was developed by Diego Gavinowich(from Buenos Aires), in three months time. Diego Gavinowich was a finalist in Google’s Latin America Code Jam contest and coded the web edition during his three month internship with google.

Google Sky – video

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5 Responses to “Google sky at sky.google.com is a treat for students and astronomers”

  1. Nirmal said:

    Definitely useful for students.

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  2. vault said:

    Google Sky is really cool and is a lot of fun to just play around with. Thanks for telling me about it.

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  3. Silki said:

    Rajesh,
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    I am considering using it for onsite SEO, and better search results.

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