WorldWide Telescope
WorldWide Telescope is a free software tool for viewing our solar system, the stars, constellations, nebulas and galaxies. The latest version - Aphelion release, September 2009 - features a 3D tour of galaxies.
There is both a free Windows desktop application that you can download and a web application that works in browsers on both Windows and Mac.
You can download WorldWide Telescope from www.worldwidetelescope.org.
The web client version of WorldWide Telescope can be viewed at www.worldwidetelescope.org/webclient/.
Links to news & info about WorldWide Telescope in July 2011
- WorldWide Telescope Tour Contest: research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/wwt/contest.aspx
Links to news & info about WorldWide Telescope in June 2011
- Space Kinect: blog.ngfl-cymru.org.uk
Links to news & info about WorldWide Telescope in April 2011
- Control the cosmos with your fingers - Kinect + WWT: cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
- Microsoft demos Kinect SDK with WorldWide Telescope at MIX11: www.istartedsomething.com
- WorldWide Telescope Revolutionizes Astronomy 101: blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/
Links in December 2010
- It's Not Your Grandpa's Planetarium Anymore - WWT + Digital Projectors: www.technewsworld.com
New links in July 2010
- Discover the Red Planet with WWT | Mars: www.worldwidetelescope.org/whatIs/whatisWWT.aspx?Page=Mars
- Microsoft and NASA Bring Mars Down to Earth Through the WorldWide Telescope: www.microsoft.com/Presspass/
- Microsoft and NASA bring new Mars imagery to WorldWide Telescope: www.liveside.net/bingblog/
- Microsoft creates a terapixel map of the night sky: www.neowin.net/news/
- NASA delivers Mars in high definition: cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
- Palomar Observatory: www.astro.caltech.edu/observatories/palomar/
- TeraPixel – Largest, Smoothest Image in the World: blogs.msdn.com/b/dan_fay/
- Terapixel WWT Sky Image: research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/terapixel/
- UK Schmidt Telescope Siding Spring NSW: www.aao.gov.au/ukst/
- WorldWide Telescope: www.worldwidetelescope.org
- WorldWide Telescope’s new sky imagery and the Mars experience: webdotwiz.spaces.live.com
New links in May 2010
- NASA, Microsoft Ready Mars 3D Views (WorldWide Telescope): www.informationweek.com
Links in April 2010
- WorldWide Telescope Fisheye and spherical mirror projection: blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay/
Links in March 2010
- Bing Maps and WorldWide Telesceope - Look up and see: webdotwiz.spaces.live.com
- Bing Maps is seeing stars, constellations: blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/
- Bing Maps... now with Worldwide Telescope integration: blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/
- It’s written in the stars – new resources for Worldwide Telescope: /blogs.msdn.com/teachers/
- New Bing Maps Application - WorldWide Telescope: www.bing.com/community/blogs/maps/
Older links to various articles and news about WWT
Below are links to help you get started and expand your knowledge of using WorldWide Telescope:
- Aphelion Release - Web Version Now Beta (September 2009): www.liveside.net
- Bring the Universe to your Classroom - WorldWide Telescope: sthompso.spaces.live.com
- Earth, Stars, and Planets in 3D: blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay/
- Explore the Universe through the World Wide Telescope (Webcast): www.educationwebcasts.com
- Journey to the centre of the universe with WorldWide Telescope: webdotwiz.spaces.live.com
- Meade4M WorldWide Telescope Community: www.meade4m.com/wwt/
- Microsoft WorldWide Telescope: blogs.technet.com/harveys/
- Microsoft WorldWide Telescope on Facebook: www.facebook.com
- Microsoft WorldWide Telescope Web Client: www.worldwidetelescope.org/webclient/
- NASA and Microsoft to Make Universe of Data Available to the Public on WWT: www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/
- New Cosmos on the Web - WorldWide Telescope in the browser: cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
- New images of the moon and Mars to explore in WorldWide Telescope: www.microsoft.com/presspass/
- Skull on Mars using World Wide Telescope: jp-ip.blogspot.com
- Sky & Telescope WorldWide Telescope community: www.skyandtelescope.com
- The Universe at Your Fingertips: research.microsoft.com
- Using Flickr for Astronomy – and viewing in WorldWide Telescope: blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay/
- WorldWide Telescope Community Support Forums: community.research.microsoft.com/forums/
- WorldWide Telescope Aphelion Version (Sep 2009): www.worldwidetelescope.org
- WorldWide Telescope General Chat: community.research.microsoft.com
- WorldWide Telescope Help: www.worldwidetelescope.org/help/
- WorldWide Telescope How to change imagery: www.worldwidetelescope.org/help/
- WorldWide Telescope Online: www.worldwidetelescope.org/webclient/
- WorldWide Telescope - Introduction at TED by Roy Gould: www.ted.com
- WorldWide Telescope - In depth with Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay: virtualearth.spaces.live.com/Blog/
- WorldWide Telescope Support Community: community.research.microsoft.com/forums/
- WorldWide Telescope Users Group on Facebook: www.facebook.com
- WorldWide Telescope Web Client Online: www.worldwidetelescope.org/webclient/
- WorldWide Telescope’s New Frontier - Aphelion release September 2009: research.microsoft.com