Discover Microsoft series part 1 – World Wide Telescope
In the following few weeks, we will be covering a series of technologies that Microsoft has developed and yet not being heard to most people. Hopefully from this series you will learn more of what Microsoft really is, discover more what Microsoft can bring to you. It is not only a software company that does Windows Operating System, it is a company that also exploring the world.
Today we will be looking at software called "WordWide Telescope". Without doubt, this is a software that will allows user to exploring the universe. I’m sure lots of people have tried the Google Earth, rather only looking at earth itself WordWide Telescope will allows you to open your eyes to the whole universe. You can discover more by virtually look into our solar systems, any starts that you might be interested. It is just amazing how the whole universe now right in front of you.
WorldWide Telescope is created with the Microsoft® high performance Visual Experience Engine™ and allows seamless panning and zooming around the night sky, planets, and image environments. View the sky from multiple wavelengths: See the x-ray view of the sky and zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then crossfade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago. Switch to the Hydrogen Alpha view to see the distribution and illumination of massive primordial hydrogen cloud structures lit up by the high energy radiation coming from nearby stars in the Milky Way. These are just two of many different ways to reveal the hidden structures in the universe with the WorldWide Telescope. Seamlessly pan and zoom from aerial views of the Moon and selected planets, as well as see their precise positions in the sky from any location on Earth and any time in the past or future with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine.
You can now download the desktop cline version (PC only) here
Or Try the web based version here (PC and Mac)
Hopefully this will open up your mind on the possibility of what Microsoft can bring. There is also an Academic Program that specially designated for this for more info click here
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