Heavens at Home

Until now applications like Google Earth let you roam all over the planet but now the rest of the universe is not that far either. Access all the universe at home using Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope.

The program was delevolped on the idea of late Jim Gray, Microsoft computer scientist, to make the universe accessible to everyone. It was acheived in partnership with NASA and California Institute of Technology for use of astronomical data and high-resolution images generated by top observatories and instruments such as Chandra and Hubble. The Worldwide Telescope uses images generated by observatory telescopes on earth and in space. The images are stitched together to put celestial bodies in the correct perspective and in their actual positions in the sky.

Worldwide Telescope can be download for free at worldwidetelescope.org

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