Google Earth is one of the coolest things that you can
install on your computer. I have it on
one of my computers, and I’ve spent hours playing with it. I’ve found my house, the houses of friends,
the Great Wall of China, all that stuff.  It’s a ton of fun for the personal user, and has been a boon for news agencies. 

It’s very cool, but after awhile you run out of things to
eyeball. Fortunately, there’s one place
where you can never run out of neat things to check out, because it’s always in
the news. That place, kids, is space. The final frontier, for both Captain Kirk and Google Earth.

Using thousands of high-resolution images taken by the
Hubble Space Telescope it promises to allow users to float and zoom in on more
than 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies.

"Never before has a road map of the entire sky been
made so readily available," said Dr Carol Christian of the Space Telescope
Science Institute, who co-led the institute’s Sky team. "Sky in Google
Earth will foster and initiate new understanding of the universe by bringing it
to everyone’s home computer."

If you have Google Earth, time to grab that update. If you don’t have Google Earth, I recommend
you go download yourself a free copy here, so you don’t miss out on what
promises to be one of the coolest additions ever thought of for an already cool
software package.

If you catch any ETs out joyriding as you peruse the far
reaches of space, make sure you tell me. I’m into that kind of thing.

Image Credit:  The CBC