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Microsoft World Wide Telescope

By Doug Holland (Intel) (245 posts) on May 20, 2008 at 3:18 pm

Once in a while the Internet yields software that demonstrates the true potential of the interconnected world within which we live, work, and play. Microsoft Research recently released the World Wide Telescope which has the potential to enable "citizen scientists to participate in research" according to Doug Roberts, director of the Adler Space Visualization Laboratory.



With the World Wide Telescope you will have access to an observatory on your desktop, allowing you to explore distant star systems or simply gaze in wonder at our neighboring planets. I only wish I had an appropriate telescope at home because you can also use the software to explore the night sky in your own back yard with your own telescope.

Go ahead, download, and then explore!!!

Categories: Software Engineering, Visual Computing

Comments (3)

May 21, 2008 10:00 AM PDT Josh Bancroft (Intel) Total Points: 3,504 Status Points: 3,004 Brown Belt

I really want to try this out, but since it's Windows-only, and I'm a Mac guy, I probably never will. Seems so old fashioned to release something cool these days that only works on one platform. But, this IS Microsoft, so I guess it's normal for them to try to entice people back to Windows. :-)

May 21, 2008 11:04 AM PDT Doug Holland (Intel) Total Points: 13,765 Status Points: 13,765 Black Belt

Given that my father in law works for Apple, I better be careful what I say here, not to mention Apple is a great partner for our processor and graphics chipsets. All that aside though, even though I began my development career using C++ on UNIX platforms, I haven't found a more developer friendly environment than that provided by our friends in Redmond. Visual Studio 2008 rocks and I can't see myself going back to slow Java based development environments on UNIX, even if it has a friendly Apple Mac shell.

July 25, 2008 2:45 AM PDT pintu murmu

sir i want to downloads it

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