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Google launched the new Sky feature of Google Earth that offers spectacular views of the cosmic space meaning 100 million individual stars and 200 million galaxies.

Users have to click on Switch to Sky from the View drop-down menu in Google Earth or press directly the Sky button on the toolbar.

Sky was created in collaboration with Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, U.K. Astronomy Technology Center in Edinburgh and Caltech's Palomar Observatory in California.

It won’t be of much help for professional astronomers but for common people, a virtual tour of the space will mean something extraordinary while watching cosmic events as they occur.
And more than that, it can be a start point for those that have penchant for astronomy, and probably will increase the interest in physics or information technology.
As S. George Djorgovski astronomy professor at California Institute of Technology said, "There is a huge need to get more young people interested in science."

VOEventNet project of The Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research, that linked a number of telescopes creating a virtual observatory, developed a software that works with Sky allowing its users to post images and videos with cosmic phenomena like colliding and exploding stars, gamma-ray bursts, and supernovae within minutes of their detection.

VOEventNet team intends that by March to add links that will let users track movement of asteroids.