WorldWide Telescope 6.1.2 – Free Space Exploration Tool

Microsoft WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a powerful Web visualization software environment that seamlessly enables your personal computer to function as an interactive, virtual telescope.

WWT brings together stunning high-resolution imagery from the best ground and space telescopes, providing a smooth and comprehensive way to explore the entire universe virtually.

WorldWide Telescope was created using Microsoft’s high-performance Visual Experience Engine. This technology enables seamless, fluid panning and zooming across the night sky, masterfully blending terabytes of imagery, astronomical data, and educational stories from multiple internet sources into a media-rich, immersive virtual experience.

WorldWide Telescope (WWT) allows for extensive exploration of the universe across multiple platforms, including web browsers, desktop applications, and full-dome planetarium setups. It masterfully integrates high-resolution imagery from the world’s best ground and space-based telescopes, combining it with seamless 3D navigation for an unparalleled experience.

Experience engaging, narrated guided tours curated by professional astronomers and educators, featuring the most interesting places in the sky. You can research and import your own astronomical data, visualize it within the environment, and create a custom tour to share with others.

Choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky, narrated by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums. Users are free to pause the tour at any time to explore on their own — with multiple information sources for objects always at their fingertips — and seamlessly rejoin the tour exactly where they left off.

To truly understand the power of WorldWide Telescope, remember that celestial objects emit energy across a vast range of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves and infrared to visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays.

The mission of the WorldWide Telescope:

• To aggregate scientific data from major telescopes, observatories, and institutions. Also, to make temporal and multi-spectral studies available through a single, cohesive Internet-based portal.
• To stimulate interest in science among younger generations. To provide a compelling base for teaching astronomy, scientific discovery, and computational science

The physical processes occurring inside these celestial objects can only be truly understood by effectively combining observations across multiple wavelengths. This is precisely where the true power of WWT lies, as it masterfully unifies an impressive collection of celestial archives. These collections were painstakingly constructed from observations gathered by instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS).

WorldWide Telescope 6 Features:

• Navigate seamlessly through 3D spherical environments: the Sky, Planets, and our Solar System
• Access to hundreds of terabytes of sky, earth, and planet data
• View, create, and edit guided tours
• Experience the 3D Solar System view with moon orbits, asteroids, and more
• Access billions of objects in a web-based astronomical catalog
• Use touch controls for touch-screen navigation
• Travel 2,000 years forward and backward in time