WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables seamless panning and zooming
across the night sky, blending terabytes of images, data, and
stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a media-
rich immersive experience. WorldWide Telescope is a
collaborative effort between Microsoft Research and a variety of
academic and governmental agencies. Microsoft Research is making
WorldWide Telescope available as a free resource to the
astronomy and education community with the hope that it will
inspire and empower people to explore and understand the
universe as never before. WorldWide Telescope now brings viewers
the largest and clearest image of the night sky ever produced.
This full-color, 24-bit RGB terapixel image provides viewers an
extraordinary sensation of panning the sky with the world’s most
powerful telescope. Another recent development, interactive
images and an exciting new NASA data set now enable viewers to
explore the features of Mars virtually. New features include a
true-color map of Mars, astonishing 3-D