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  • work of Gray

    James Nicholas Gray
    ...went online in 1998, many years before the comparable Google Earth was launched. Beginning in 2002 Gray was also instrumental in developing SkySearch—released to the public in 2008 as the Microsoft Worldwide Telescope—which combines astronomical images from various sources into a free searchable and viewable application.
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