Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope is rumored to be one of the greatest applications to hit the desktop in many years. It brought popular blogger Robert Scoble to tears, and was a big hit at the elite TED conference in California.
Only one problem - World Wide Telescope is not available yet to any but a select few.
Enter Google’s launch today of their astronomy application, Google Sky, which according to Google “…. turns your browser into a virtual telescope that can zoom and pan across the entire cosmos”.
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