AppStar Games, the iPhone studio headed by game industry veterans like Garry Kitchen (Super Battletank) and David Crane (A Boy and His Blob, Pitfall!), have released a new action title combining ping pong balls and photos of our solar system to the App Store.

In Fling Pong, players tap their touchscreens to bounce a ping pong ball into a target hole -- represented with moving planets in this release. The game's graphics are based on actual Hubble Telescope imagery, and it also offers a dynamic soundtrack featuring excerpts from famous classical score Holst: The Planets.

Fling Pong takes advantage of Open Feint's social gaming platform to provide high score leaderboards for each of its 32 levels, achievements, and friend-to-friend integration through Facebook/Twitter. You can download the game now for both iPhone ($1.99) and iPad ($2.99).

[Via FingerGaming]