Bringing the universe to your desktop :: The WorldWide Telescope

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe. WorldWide Telescope, created with Microsoft's high-performance Visual Experience Engine™, enables seamless panning and zooming across the night sky blending terabytes of images, data, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a media-rich, immersive experience.

Ted Gould and Curtis Wong recently spoke about the WorldWide Telescope at TED. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes.

The WorldWide Telescope will be freely available this spring. I can not wait!!! -bob

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• Anonymous
  March 02, 2008
  The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope

• Anonymous
  March 06, 2008
  According to Scott Guthrie , Microsoft is seeing a steady increase in  the download rate of Silverlight

• Anonymous
  March 21, 2009
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