Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope (WWT)

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.
WWT Faq

Q. When will WorldWide Telescope be available?
A. Spring 2008.

I have this bookmarked & am anxious to check this out & I wanted to share it with everyone here at PRO too

Geez, free to boot! Hmm, doesn't google have something similar? I'm not sure.

augie wrote:

Geez, free to boot! Hmm, doesn't google have something similar? I'm not sure.

Not sure either


WWT (spring beta) is available now, over at Microsoft Research

Here is what the opening window looks like.