WikiSky.org: Google Earth for the heavens. We all know how useful tools like Google Earth and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth have been to understanding what’s out there on our lovely planet earth, most of us are just lost when it comes to the heavens above. First of all, depending on where you live, light pollution might make seeing the night time sky impossible, unless you count the moon and maybe Mercury and Venus. Thankfully, though, the folks over at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have put together wikisky.org, which is kind of like Google Earth for the heavens above. Using a cool graphical interface, visitors can zoom in or out on stars or constellations, pulling up detailed astronomical data collected from SDSS’s survey. SDSS is an ambitious sky mapping project that wants to create detailed optical images covering more than a quarter of the sky, and a 3-dimensional map of about a million galaxies and quasars, according to the Wikisky Web site. Check it out. Technology Industry