Longtime readers will know I am a huge fan of WorldWide Telescope. To put it mildly, WorldWide Telescope is the best astronomy program EVER. If I had this when I was a kid I would never turn it off, it would autostart with the computer and I would be c… more »

A new build of WorldWide Telescope has gone up, for both Windows and Silverlight platforms. Grab it from here. Cosmos view has been re-worked and looks a lot better, the Solar System view has had a view changes, eclipes now work on other planets, t… more »

The WorldWide Telescope team has released a web client for WorldWide Telescope, written in Silverlight and currently in alpha but from my testing works quite well. It doesn't support the 3D solar system view yet, but pretty much everything else is… more »

A new feature that WorldWide Telescope implemented in a recent release was the Cosmos view. This takes data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey which is in the process of mapping the distance to a million or so galaxies. You've probably seen images lik… more »

Have just been throwing my must-have applications onto my Windows 7 system and came across a nice surprise. There's a new build of WorldWide Telescope available. Here's the official blurb for those who haven't already tried it out: Immerse yourself… more »

Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope is now out in its first public beta. What are you waiting for? Go download it. more »

So today is the day I've been waiting for Microsoft officially announced WorldWide Telescope. Sadly it isn't available yet for general download, but it will be sometime during the Spring. WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environmen… more »