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Google has added an attractive feature to its Google Earth program. Now, this not only look to the Earth, but also to the Cosmos.

Activating the corresponding option, you can use it as a desktop planetarium, which can move into thousands of stars and deep space objects, approaching them at will. It includes numerous images gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope, and information on the most important. The position of the stars comes from two initiatives called Digitized Sky Survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which made photographic views of almost the entire sky and contains hundreds of millions of stars and other objects.
 
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