The Sky

Today Google Earth was updated to allow the viewing of the sky. This is a nice update to a favorite application that now allows one to view the beauties of the night sky, and also learn more / get more detailed images of heavenly bodies.

This is an example shot of the new appication:



I think it's nice, but my current favorite night time sky application is Stellarium which gives a nice perspective of the sky from anywhere on earth (it was really helpful in my astronomy class to help identify stars, constellations, etc..).

Also worth mentioning is Celestia however, I have never found it to be quite as useful.