Wednesday, August 22, 2007

New: Google Sky

Just wanted to let everybody know that the new version of Google Earth released yesterday has a Google Sky feature that lets you explore the Universe. There are a lot of blogs and videos turning up that show how this works.

http://earth.google.com/tour/thanks-win4.html to download.

I'll get the new version installed on the GIS workstations ASAP. Likely the UNITY version won't be updated until Winter break at the earliest, however.

Jeff

1 comment:

Josh W. said...

There are actually several open source and/or free applications for sky exploration out there. (And plenty that you can buy, if you're so inclined.) A good recent summary is here. Obviously, this one has the advantage of using software already familiar to people.