Type of site Web mapping Owner Google | Available in English Website www.google.com/sky | |
Registration Yes, with Google Account Launched August 27, 2007; 9 years ago (2007-08-27) | ||
Google Sky is a feature for Google Earth and an online sky/outer space viewer. It was created on August 27, 2007. The application allows users to view a collaboration of images from NASA satellites, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the Hubble Telescope.
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It is available on Android and can be used on a smartphone as an augmented reality application.
Google Earth version
The first Google Sky version to be created was on the virtual globe program called Google Earth. It features a number of layers, similar to the earth mode. It is mapped with images on the inside of the Google Earth sphere, with the north and south poles lining up with the two poles in Google Sky. As with other planetarium programs, it is viewed from the inside looking out from the center. It is facing competition from Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope.
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Sky Map
Sky Map is an Android implementation of Google Sky. On January 20, 2012, Google announced a student development partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and released Sky Map under the Apache 2.0 open source license. The project is available in the form of a Google Code repository.