I recently learned that there is work being performed to develop GoogleSky. GoogleSky will be the equivalent of Google Earth but for all things astronomical. It will allow us to easily peruse and search the massive datasets that have been collected from the various space missions. Such a venture would be a great asset to scientific research, but it would also help bring what we know about this glorious universe to the non-specialist as well.
This proposal was announced at ADASS 2006 in Tucson in December 2006 and can be found here.
But apparently it is going forward since they are still looking for people to work on it. For example, here at the Space Telescope Science Institute through the Google Summer of Code.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Posted under Astronomy, Internet, Research, Software, Space
This post was written by drknuth on April 24, 2007
Kev;
NASA WORLDWIND has the SLOAN Digital Sky Survey data reay for viewing.
I am anxious to see Google Sky as I enjoy Google Earth. How do I get to see it?
GoogleSky is bundled with the new version of Google Earth. See this updated blog entry: How do I get GoogleSky?