Explore Galaxy With New Google App

Star Droid helps cellphone astronomers with GPS, maps, tags
By Jess Kilby,  Newser Staff
Posted May 11, 2009 10:03 AM CDT
Explore Galaxy With New Google App
The image made May 4, 2009, by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 is of the planetary nebula known as Kohoutek 4-55.    (NASA)

Budding astronomers will soon have a new cell-phone tool that spots the stars they’re looking for, the Telegraph reports. Google’s Star Droid helps stargazers navigate the night sky using GPS technology that cross-references the user’s position with existing space maps, and adds identifying tags to the heavenly bodies that can be seen through the phone’s viewfinder. No release date has been announced. (More Google stories.)

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