If you're like us, you spent a lot of time over the weekend goofing off with Google Sky, the cool new application from Google that lets you search the starry night sky the same way you search Google maps. You can move around, zoom in, and get popups with information on what you're seeing. But there's no helpful popup for this Star Wars battle that one io9 reader found in Google Sky right here. Sure it might just be an artifact or lens flare, but those streaks sure do look like giant laser blasters. (Thanks, Luke!)
Star Wars Battle Found in Google Sky?
10:38 AM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Annalee Newitz
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I don't see the ships. Maybe it's a Star Trek battle and the ships are cloaked.
Im still trying to find a UFO
@extracrispy: Do you see the lasers?
@Annalee Newitz: Oh yeah, I see the lasers. Cool stuff.
Wait, were the lasers in Star Trek cloaked too? Or the ships had to uncloak when they fired? Hell, I can't remember.
@extracrispy: they always fired torpedos
@extracrispy: I imagine that the second they fired a torpedo, even if they were cloaked, other ships could trace their location. Just look at the place where a torpedo came out of nowhere.
But it seems that there was a Romulan ship that could fire torpedoes while cloaked. But the Federation found a way to detect, and destroyed it.
[startrek.wikia.com]
Ohhh, and btw, the best cloaking EVER is from Invader Zim.
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ah, Zim. we need more Zim (and GIR!) on io9.
looks like lightsabers to me.
'shopped. haha
Here's another one by the moon:[www.google.com]
Zoomed in a lot: [www.google.com]
Also, look a the one in the story:
[www.google.com]
Why is "Spitzer" In the URL?
The image on the right - a brightly-coloured streak of light going all the way across the picture you are trying to classify - is a satellite trail. As satellites orbit Earth, sunlight reflects off their solar panels, making them look very bright from the ground. Because the satellite is moving as the telescope's camera is taking an image, the satellite makes a trail - a streak across the image. The trail is coloured because the colour images for the site are made by combining three black-and-white images, and the satellite only appeared in one image.
I only know this because I am such a GalaxyZoo freak.
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