Photos: Roam the heavens with Google Sky

Google added a feature a couple of months ago called Sky -- which lets users roam the heavens from its Google Earth application.

Effectively turning Google Earth on its head, users are given a view of the sky as seen from Earth where they can view and navigate 100 million individual stars and 200 million galaxies.

Users can also use the virtual telescope to see the seven official planets in our solar system, animations of the Moon and add a constellations layer to see how the stars join up.

Pictured is a screenshot from Google Sky.

The Hubble Space Telescope has also provided Google with more than 120 high-resolution images of some of the celestial images it has captured over the years.

Credit: Google Earth

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