Google Earth Sky Launches - 100 Million Stars can be Viewed and Zoomed in On

Well, Google today announced that it will soon have indexed the Sky. The New Google Earth sky edition will enable users to float and zoom in on over 100 million individual stars and 200 million galaxies. Like Google’s map of the world with Google Earth, we will all now have maps of the Universe.
“You will be able to browse into the sky like never before,” said Carol Christian, an astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute, a nonprofit academic consortium that supports the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Sky imagery was stitched together from more than one million photographs from scientific and academic sources, including the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the Palomar Observatory.
If this doesn’t show you how fast technology is expanding, then nothing will. We will all have extremely high powered telescopes with encyclopedias attached to them now, for free.
You can say what you want about Google dominating the internet, but when they make information like this available to the world for absolutely no cost, how can anyone ever complain?
The Sky service will be available on all Google Earth domains, in 13 languages from later on Wednesday. Users will need to download the newest version of Google Earth which can be found at http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
Watch the Video showing how powerful this new Google Sky Earth feature really is:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cU3CXg_mFw