The World Wide Telescope Project
Do you like Star Wars, Star Trek, Astronomy In collaboration with a company called Microsoft, Science educator Roy Gould has put together the Google Earth of the Universe. Explore, discover, and share the wonders of our galaxy. The video demonstration above only shows a mere 1% of the collection of astronomy they’ve catalogued. 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. Don’t want to wait for the Spring 2008 launch You could always build your own telescope or even make a super webcam telescope.
