Direct to you (and the world) comes Microsoft Research‘s (MSR) latest project gone wild – WorldWide Telescope. The program takes utilises other MSR projects such as PhotoZoom and PhotoSynth to create an interactive 3D view of space as we know it, overlayed with images from all your favourite telescopes.
WorldWide Telescope - Splash Screen
The project includes imagery from Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer and others and claims to provide you with the same quality of imagery that NASA scientists use.
WWT will show you all of the objects in your current viewport (along the bottom), selecting any of these will zoom in and display information about the object.
Not to be restricted just to space, It’s easy enough to tell WWT that you are sick of looking at the sky and that you’d rather look at panoramas of alien planets, bringing up Mars as seen by Oppurtunity and Spirit:
Is that my shoe?
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