New deep space images of distant strip of sky to be available on Google

A global project to map a distant strip of the universe is releasing itsdata today to scientists and the public to be used as part of GoogleSky, a new feature of Google Earth. The international team is taking deep images of an area of sky known asthe Extended Groth Strip, an area that covers the width of four fullmoons, close to the end of the Big Dipper's handle.

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