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Written by staff writer   
Wednesday, 29 August 2007

As if detailed satellite maps of the Earth weren’t enough, or a virtual globe that you can spin and zoom at will didn’t amaze you, and map databases of Mars and the Moon didn’t tickle your imagination, Google has upped the ante yet again. This time, it comes in the form of a little button on their popular free “Google Earth” application (not to be confused with Google Maps) which, when you click it, switches your view to the sky above. With the same ease and speed that one might use looking for sunbathers on French beaches in Google Earth, now you can scour the sky above for galactic phenomena. Google has pooled star photography from telescopes around the world to stitch together a composite, continuous sky which one may pan and zoom at will, drilling back through time to distant star clusters and galaxies far away.What’s next for Google? Our money is on “Google Brain,” which would allow people to search and browse their own memories, followed soon thereafter by, we’re certain,  “Google Dream.”

 
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