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Google’s Year in Review Includes Space Highlights

December 12, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Even though this is a promotional video by Google, it is a great review of 2012, good and bad. And there’s a plethora of space-related events and people featured. Look for: Felix Baumgartner’s jump, SpaceX’s Dragon launch, the search for the [...]

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Explore the Stellar Neighborhood with New Milky Way Visualization

November 14, 2012

Screenshot from 100,000 Stars Want to explore the Milky Way? A new visualization tool from Google called 100,000 Stars lets you take a tour of our cosmic neighborhood, and with a few clicks of your mouse you can zoom in, out and around and do a little learning along the way. Zoom in to learn [...]

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Google’s 5 Most Memorable Space Doodles

August 1, 2012

Google’s one of those tech companies that makes a big deal about space exploration. There’s not only the Google Lunar X-Prize, or its maps of the Moon and Mars, or memorable April Fool’s pranks such as the lunar Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (G.C.H.E.E.S.E.) The Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant often [...]

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Kickstart Your DNA (And a Rover) To The Moon!

July 9, 2012

Omega Envoy, the non-profit research lab Earthrise Space, Inc.’s team competing for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, has launched a Kickstarter project to help fund a 4-axis CNC milling machine needed to continue development on their proposed lunar rover. CNC machines don’t come cheap, but in typical Kickstarter fashion Earthrise Space is offering incremental rewards [...]

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Google Satellite

November 18, 2009

If you’ve spent any time on the internet, you’ve probably had a chance to use either Google Earth or Google Maps. Both of these tools allow you to see a satellite view of the Earth, and zoom right in to see your home from space. But is there a Google satellite to take these photographs? [...]

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