Exactly who doesn’t like gazing at the night sky? I would definitely love to doze off looking at the twinkling stars and trying to spot constellations. Sounds weird but there is an amazing sense of calm up there in the heavens even if everything around you is topsy turvy.
Now, not everyone can prop up a telescope or just enjoy the luxury of sleeping under a starry sky. Neither do we have such clear skies that aid our fantasies. That’s precisely why I’ve complied a list of websites which allow you to do just that.
These websites go far beyond the simple telescope and the naked eye. You get access to images from the Hubble and a dozen other powerful observatories like they’re your own playground. All this without even having to download anything. I know, the Web is just so awesome.
This website uses some seriously high res images from ESO’s satellite’s (to the tune of 65 MB per image!!) to show you a crops of The Milky Way and the Lagoon Nebula. The website is run by some nice French blokes at the ESO who aim at ‘connecting the sky as seen by the unaided eye with that seen by hobby and professional astronomers’. C’est magnifique is all that I have to say
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