Googlified

Last year, the Sky feature was added to Google Earth, and now, like Google Maps, the Sky data are now accessible via a web browser, with the launch of Google Sky.

You can search for planets, listen to Earth & Sky podcasts, watch some beautiful Hubble telescope images, or explore historical maps of the sky from the comfort of your browser. [Official Google Blog]

The site is really slow on this end of the tube (or bad programming?) and a lot of images aren’t loading. I wonder if this is a response to Microsoft’s announcement of the WorldWide Telescope [pic].