Google helping in the search of exoplanets.

“When starships transporting colonists first depart the solar system, they may well be headed toward a TESS-discovered planet as their new home.”

George R. Ricker, senior research scientist at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at MIT

Google has joined MIT scientists who are designing a satellite-based observatory -the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)- that they say could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire sky to search for earth-like planets outside the solar system that appear to cross in front of bright stars. Google will fund development of the wide-field digital cameras needed for the satellite.

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(Full Article: http://www.dailygalaxy.com)

Google Sky is now online!

Google Sky now on the web. It rocks too. Gives a nice impression of size!
http://www.google.com/sky/

Explore the sky with Google Earth

With about a hundred million stars and two hundred million galaxies, Sky in Google Earth lets you explore the heavens like never before.

This is one heck of a nice tool. Highly suggested download if you like astronomy. http://earth.google.com/