Microsoft Telescope Tours

Additional Info

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The WorldWide Telescope is a computer program created by Microsoft running under either a Microsoft Windows client or a new cross platform web client based on Silverlight which allows its users to view outer space. It was announced at the TED Conference in Monterey, California in February, 2008. Users are able to pan around outer space and zoom as far into any one area as the data will allow. Images are taken from the Hubble Space Telescope and approximately ten earth-bound telescopes. It is possible to view the sky in many wavelengths of light. The software utilizes Microsoft's Visual Experience Engine technologies to function.

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    Mundelein Review 2 weeks, 2 days ago

    Drop by any time to use high-powered telescopes to view the moon and Jupiter with its "Great Red Spot" and cloud bands. Use the new hands-on "Kid-Powered ...

Videos

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Web Search Results

  • WorldWide Telescope

    Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope ... You can see videos of the guided tours within WorldWide Telescope or if you have WWT already installed, ... www.worldwidetelescope.org

  • Experience WWT - WorldWide Telescope

    This tour illustrates the interactive possibilities of Tours within WorldWide Telescope. Interactive Tours. Curtis WOng. Microsoft Research ... www.worldwidetelescope.org

  • WorldWide Telescope Partners Community

    Microsoft Research would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the ... Telescope. This tour, and other future tours, will first be available in the ... www.microsoft.com

  • SkyandTelescope.com - News Blog - Microsoft's Virtual Observatory

    Feb 27, 2008 ... WWT sprung up from the foundations of Microsoft's TerraServer, ... connect to your telescope, WWT will also make it easy to create "tours. ... www.skyandtelescope.com