Google Sky

2:11pm, 24th August 2007

Google Sky is not as browsable as plain old Earth unless you’re familiar with the night sky already. I tried zooming into Sheliak, also known as Beta Lyrae, and didn’t find much extra info on this famous “contact binary” star.

Google Sky showing Sheliak

At least it didn’t crash hard like the previous state-of-the-art Beta Lyrae viewer:

Beta Lyrae in Frontier: Elite 2

Related: An incredible disassembly, exposition, and reconstruction of the original Frontier: Elite 2 galaxy-generating source code!


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