 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-based
telescopes in the world to enable seamless, guided explorations of
the universe. Visit the
WorldWide Telescope Web site.
About WorldWide Telescope
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.
WorldWide Telescope is a collaborative effort between Microsoft
Research and a variety of academic and governmental agencies.
Microsoft Research is making WorldWide Telescope available as a free
resource to the astronomy and education community with the hope that
it will inspire and empower people to explore and understand the
universe as never before.
Feature Stories
Publications
Talks
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Online Science: The World-Wide Telescope (Research Channel,
February 26, 2002).
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Online Science: A talk on the WorldWide Telescope, University of
California, Santa Cruz. April 10, 2002 (PowerPoint, 4 MB).
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Online Science: A talk on the WorldWide Telescope, IBM, April 5,
2002, and WDAS in Paris, March 21, 2002 (PowerPoint, 2 MB).
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Online Science (WorldWide Telescope and SkyServer, University of
Washington, Seattle. February 26, 2002 (PowerPoint, 5 MB).
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Mining the Sky: Building the WorldWide Telescope: SC2001,
November 14, 2001, WSU, JHU, UCI (PowerPoint, 4 MB).
People
Primary Contact: Curtis Wong
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