Just when I thought web 3.0 will feature maps and video streaming of our local areas allowing everyone to spy on anything, Google starts talking about mapping the space. Why not. They’re the closest thing to God at the moment since they know everything. It seems like Google is becoming more and more adventurous in their plans and marketing strategies. What will they come up with next?

The New York Times reported yesterday that Sky uses more than a million images from observatories around the world.

Its southern hemisphere view boasts an Australian flavour, having been created using 894 pictures snapped by a telescope at the Anglo-Australian Observatory at Siding Spring, near Coonabarabran.

“It’s like Google Earth, but in reverse, looking out into the universe,” the astronomer in charge, Fred Watson, said yesterday. “It lets you view the sky from any place on Earth.”

Read the full report here.