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Microsoft software brings universe down to Earth!
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by stvalentine | May 14, 2008 at 02:37 am
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The world's largest software maker launched a free softwareapplication called WorldWide Telescope on Monday that allowseveryone from space novices to astronomy professors to easilyexplore galaxies, star systems and distant planets.
The WorldWide Telescope stitches together 12 terabytes --the data equivalent of 2.6 billion pages of text -- of picturesfrom sources including the Hubble Space Telescope, the ChandraX-Ray Observatory Center and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
The experience is similar to playing a video game, allowingusers to zoom in and out of galaxies that are thousands oflight years away. It allows seamless viewing of far-away starsystems and rarely-seen space dust in breathtaking clarity.
The software allows users to develop their own guided toursof the universe to share with others or take part a guided tourcreated by astronomy experts.
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at 18:24 on May 15th, 2008
stvalentine, I like this story. It's good stuff. We'll just have to wait for Apple to make one too.