The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization
software environment that enables your computer to function as a
virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and
space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the
universe.
Choose from a growing number of guided tours of
the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous
observatories and planetariums in the country. Feel free at any time to
pause the tour, explore on your own (with multiple information sources
for objects at your fingertips), and rejoin the tour where you left
off. Join Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman on a journey showing how
dust in the Milky Way Galaxy condenses into stars and planets. Take a
tour with University of Chicago Cosmologist Mike Gladders two billion
years into the past to see a gravitational lens bending the light from
galaxies allowing you to see billions more years into the past.
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 wavelenghts: 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.
WWT is a single rich application
portal that blends terabytes of images, information, and stories from
multiple sources over the Internet into a seamless, immersive, rich
media experience. Kids of all ages will feel empowered to explore and
understand the universe with its simple and powerful user interface.
Microsoft Research is dedicating WorldWide Telescope to the memory of
Jim Gray and is releasing WWT as a free resource to the astronomy and
education communities with the hope that it will inspire and empower
people to explore and understand the universe like never before.
Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
System Requirements:
* PC with Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2 gigahertz (GHz) or faster, recommended
* 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM; 2 GB RAM recommended
* 3D accelerated card with 128 megabytes (MB) RAM; discrete graphics
card with dedicated 256-MB VRAM recommended for higher performance
* 1 GB of available hard disk space; 10 GB recommended for off-line features and higher performance browsing
* XGA (1024 x 768) or higher resolution monitor
* Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing and scrolling device
* Microsoft DirectX version 9.0c or later and .NET Framework 2.0 or later
* Required for some features; Internet connection at 56 Kbps or higher
through either an Internet service provider (ISP) or a network.
Internet access might require a separate fee to an ISP; local or
long-distance telephone charges might also apply
Size: 40 MB
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