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Google Earth has become a staple of Google Maps, with developments and updates released regularly. Google’s project has grown to include Google Mars, Google Sky, and Google Moon, and just as Google Earth has gone from a downloadable application to a web-accessible visual tool, Google Sky - which used to be solely a portion of the Google Earth application - will too. And Google won’t let a little lawsuit get in the way of developing its Google Sky.

They have just launched their web-based version of Google Sky, which doesn’t require a download and can be accessed directly through the user’s browser window. It is available on all web browsers, and is being launched globally in 26 localized languages.

There are a few new exploration features that come with the web-based version - a search tool for browsing named objects in the sky, multiple optical sky surveys for switching views, and galleries that display images from Hubble and other telescopes. Two key benefits of this dynamic version is that users won’t have to rely on downloadable updates in order to get the latest information, and it also lets you find current planet positions.

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