Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope is Available
Posted by Dan Rigsby on May 13th, 2008
Microsoft has released its Worldwide Telescope software, and it is available for download. This software can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client much like Google Earth. I have a vested interest in this after having working on some Observatory Simulation Software and my life long love of astronomy. I am excited about spending my evenings exploring the cosmos. Long Zheng has a good review of this product here: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080513/capturing-screenshots-from-worldwide-telescope/. I am very exciting about this product. It’s one of the coolest applications I have seen in a long time. Supposedly, a video of this product even made Robert Scoble cry.
I doubt you will find evidence of alien life, but I urge you to download the software and try it out yourself here: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/experienceIt/ExperienceIt.aspx?exp=true. You won’t be disappointed.
May 21st, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Geody Space ( http://www.geody.com/?world=space ) now also supports Microsoft WorldWide Telescope: now you can search for stars and see them on it, and on Google Sky and NASA WorldWind SDSS.