New Real-Time Cosmic Events On Google Sky

Over the years i of the close underused features of the Google Maps API has been the planetary map types as well as Google Sky map tiles. This is in all probability why it isn't fifty-fifty supported inwards V3 of the Maps API.

Despite the lack of back upwards for the planetary map tiles inwards the Maps API it is withal possible to hack the map tiles as well as piece of job them amongst Google Maps. SkyWatch has released a novel beta application which uses Google Sky to map real-time cosmic events equally reported past times NASA.

NASA shares information amongst other scientists as well as infinite observatories but about the world. The SkyWatch app cherry-picks some of the close interesting cosmic events from that information as well as shows the place of the events on an astronomical map of the nighttime sky.

The latest cosmic events are displayed inwards the map sidebar as well as you lot tin flaming click on the 'sky view' link for each resultant to encounter it mapped on the Google Sky map.

If you lot desire to piece of job Google Sky or the planetary map tiles (for the Luna as well as Mars) on your ain maps as well as thus you lot tin flaming piece of job this example code available on Google Code.