The map consists of 13 years of work totaling 200,000 images, thanks to the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope.

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Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space.