SLOOH - SpaceCamera. Sharing the Google Sky. Google and the Slooh virtual-telescope company have announced a deal to integrate tens of thousands of pictures captured by Slooh's members automatically into Google Earth's astronomical database.
The arrangement could bring scientific crowdsourcing to a whole new level. Millions of Internet users have already been participating in space-themed projects such as SETI @ Home, Galaxy Zoo and Moon Zoo, but those projects mostly involve sifting through data collected by the professionals. Galaxy Zoo: Hubble. Moon Zoo.