WorldWide Telescope from Microsoft

Do you ever find yourself looking up at the sky on a night filled will stars and wondering about the way, they twinkle. Well, Worldwide Telescope from Microsoft will not you the reason but it will certainly make you experience the universe more closely. It converts your computer into a virtual telescope showcasing you images taken from best telescopes in the world.

According to Microsoft “WWT is an application that runs in Windows (well, there is Mac installer also) that utilizes images and data stored on remote servers enabling you to explore some of the highest resolution imagery of the universe available in multiple wavelengths.”

“WorldWide Telescope is created with the Microsoft® high performance Visual Experience Engine™ and allows seamless panning and zooming around the night sky, planets, and image environments. View the sky from multiple wavelengths: See the x-ray view of the sky and zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then crossfade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago. Switch to the Hydrogen Alpha view to see the distribution and illumination of massive primordial hydrogen cloud structures lit up by the high energy radiation coming from nearby stars in the Milky Way. These are just two of many different ways to reveal the hidden structures in the universe with the WorldWide Telescope. Seamlessly pan and zoom from aerial views of the Moon and selected planets, as well as see their precise positions in the sky from any location on Earth and any time in the past or future with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine.”

WorldWide Telescope started as a project two years ago, where the aim was to map every object found on our galaxy (well, can’t be everything) and leaving objects found on our planet “Earth”.  May be Google Earth was too big to compete, so it decided to go for something new, where Microsoft doesn’t have to stand second.

Whatever, may be the case, Microsoft has produced a splendid product which allows you to have a peek in our never finishing galaxy.  You can simply zoom in to places or take help from guided tours which are fixed explanations with voice and pictures embedded together.

There is so much more that can be written but it is nothing like experiencing yourself.  You can download it from here.

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