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June 3, 2009
Exoplanet Astronomy Star Trek Style
I stumbled upon a cool site 
that tells you some basic facts about known exoplanets. But, rather than a boring web page, it pretends you are on the bridge of a Star Trek ship using the computer. The underlying planet view comes from a Google Earth plugin using the Sky mode. Yet another fun example of using the GE API and plugin in innovative ways with an educational twist.
Posted by FrankTaylor at June 3, 2009 9:53 AM
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Posted by: Hussein Nasser at June 4, 2009 3:44 AM
@Hussein: The site lets you look at the planets in the GE plugin part of the interface. Simply put your mouse over a planet and they show data on the planet on the right side of the "star trek" screen (NOTE: you may have to make your browser page larger, or scroll the page to the right to see the rest of the interface).
Posted by: Frank Taylor 
at June 4, 2009 7:54 AM
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Really nice site! and excellent/neat programming
Still I didn't see the search for planets/stars feature.