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From the News Desk
Wednesday, 14. May 2008
WorldWide Telescope: Microsoft Takes You to an Expedition of Lifetime
Microsoft’s research division has recently revealed a public beta of its Worldwide Telescope project, an online collection of images from deep space that represent Microsoft's answer to Google Sky, the online virtual telescope that was launched last year.
The WorldWide Telescope, powered by a mix of software and Web 2.0 services created with Microsoft's Visual Experience Engine, combines a huge database of 12 terabytes of pictures, data equivalent of 2.6 billion pages of text, from sources including the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The experience is similar to playing a video game, allowing users to zoom in and out of galaxies that are thousands of light years away. It allows viewing of far-away star systems and rarely-seen space dust in incredible clarity.
Microsoft has dedicated this service to the memory of Microsoft researcher Jim Gray, who disappeared in January 2007 while sailing off the coast of San Francisco. Gray helped develop SkyServer, the front end for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ongoing project aimed at making a 3-D map of the universe.
This service is being offered free of charge to educational and astronomical communities and Microsoft expects the technology used in the WorldWide Telescope to ignite the interest of children to learn more about space.
The WorldWide Telescope, powered by a mix of software and Web 2.0 services created with Microsoft's Visual Experience Engine, combines a huge database of 12 terabytes of pictures, data equivalent of 2.6 billion pages of text, from sources including the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The experience is similar to playing a video game, allowing users to zoom in and out of galaxies that are thousands of light years away. It allows viewing of far-away star systems and rarely-seen space dust in incredible clarity.
Microsoft has dedicated this service to the memory of Microsoft researcher Jim Gray, who disappeared in January 2007 while sailing off the coast of San Francisco. Gray helped develop SkyServer, the front end for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ongoing project aimed at making a 3-D map of the universe.
This service is being offered free of charge to educational and astronomical communities and Microsoft expects the technology used in the WorldWide Telescope to ignite the interest of children to learn more about space.
