Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope Application Blasts Onto The Desktop

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Microsoft has launched (an appropriate metaphor this time) its Worldwide Telescope desktop application. You must download the software , but then you're treated to a beautiful array of images and 'guided tours' of the cosmos (see screenshots below). Inten ded for science education, 'Worldwide Telescope stitches together terabytes of high-resolution images of celestial bodies, and displays them in a way that relates to their actual position in the sky.' Click to continue reading....