This Google Maps mashup is out of this world!

Keir Clarke has developed Star Viewer using the new 'sky' option in the Google Maps API:

With Star Viewer you can watch a number of astronomical videos embedded on a map of the night sky. A number of the videos are from the Hubblecast series produced by the European Space Agency. The Hubblecasts feature news and images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. In addition to the videos the map placemarks give way to a number of other amazing images from Google's huge tileset of merged telescope images and that are also viewable in Google Sky!

Related:

• Maps from another world (Google Lat Long Blog)- Read about how to use the Maps API to create your own web-based mashups of the night sky, Mars and the Moon!
• Google Moon
• Google Mars
• The World at Night
• Europa, the icy moon of Jupiter

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