BALTIMORE -Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and
seeing all the spectacular images from NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse
click away through Sky in Google Earth. Sky in Google Earth is
produced by Google, the company that hosts the popular Internet
search engine, through a partnership with the Space Telescope
Science Institute in Baltimore, the science operations center
for Hubble. To access the new feature, users will need to
download the newest version of Google Earth, available free of
charge. With Sky in Google Earth, you can travel across the
vastness of the night sky, making tour stops at all the popular
Hubble images. Though these celestial objects are far away from
Earth, you can reach them in a few seconds with Sky in Google
Earth. "You have seen the Hubble images of objects such as the
Eagle Nebula, the so-called pillars of creation," said Carol
Christian, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science
Institute and one of the developers