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Microsoft Incorporation on Monday, May 12, 2008 launched ‘Worldwide Telescope’, a free software application that allows everyone from space enthusiasts to University Physics professors to explore star systems, distant planets and galaxies. A test version of the fascinating software can be downloaded from ‘worldwidetelescope.org’. The goal of the program is to spark the interests of children, who want to know more and more about space.
Microsoft remarked that it will release Worldwide Telescope free of charge as a tribute to Jim Gray, a Microsoft researcher who worked on projects with astronomers to organize vast amounts of data and images being pulled from the satellites. Gray last year went missing off the coast of California while sailing.
The Worldwide Telescope sews together 12 tetrabytes of images from sources including the Chandra X Ray Observatory Center, Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. The new programme will enable the user to have seamless viewing of far away star systems and rarely seen space dust in spectacular clarity.
The Worldwide Telescope sews together 12 tetrabytes of images from sources including the Chandra X Ray Observatory Center, Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. The new programme will enable the user to have seamless viewing of far away star systems and rarely seen space dust in spectacular clarity.
