Microsoft Telescope Tours

Additional Info

via Wikipedia
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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  • 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

  • WorldWide Telescope

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

  • Microsoft WorldWide Telescope - Your Digital Life New Zealand

    That opened a whole host of doors for us, and thanks to WorldWide Telescope's guided tours we were soon on our way to the farthest flung reaches of our ... 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