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In Pictures: Most Spectacular Sights in Google Sky

Want to boldly go all over the universe? With views of 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies, Google Sky lets you be a virtual space traveler with just a few clicks of a mouse. Here are some amazing images that are literally out of this world.

The Beehive Cluster 12 of 17

Does this look familiar? Known as the Beehive Cluster, this collection of red giant and white dwarf stars is visible with the naked eye under dark skies, in the constellation Cancer, between February and May. It is thought to be one of the first objects that astronomer Galileo Galilei studied with his telescope in the 1600s. (Search: Praesepe)

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