Even with some of the best telescopes, it’s hard to make out all the planets. But now, there’s a new way for you to explore space — traveling through the final frontier on your PC.Astronomers have added an application to Google Earth that allows users to not only look at detailed pictures of the night sky at their convenience, but to observe unfolding cosmic events in real time. This application is an extra layer to the Google application and it will show both explosive gamma-ray bursts and shiny gravitational microlensing events…

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