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Have you tried Google Sky?
Google Sky is a feature for Google's Google Earth and an online sky/outer space viewer at www.google.com/sky. It shows the sky view made up of a collaboration of Hubble Telescope space photographs. 

It was created on August 27, 2007.[1]
Google also runs an internet version of Sky, which was created in response to the popularity of the Google Earth application.[4] Google Sky Website was launched on March 13, 2008 as posted in Google Lat Long Blog in an article by Google Software Engineer Michael Weiss-Malik. It's accessible from any web browser and operating system and available in 26 languages (the first Google Maps product to support right-to-left languages). It was coded by Diego Gavinowich, a Latin America Code Jam finalist from Buenos Aires who joined Google for a winter internship, with the help of other engineers on their 20% time.[5]


Features include:
Search
Layers 
Infrared
Microwave
Historical
Galleries highlighting 
Selected images from Hubble and other telescopes.
Chandra X-Ray Showcase
GALEX Ultraviolet Showcase
Spitzer Infrared Showcase
Current planet positions and constellations.
Overlays of custom KML content.
Earth & Sky podcasts gallery.

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