Microsoft launches World Wide Telescope

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Microsoft launched the World Wide Telescope project this week.

Watch this:

Then go download, play, experiment, send to science teachers, and let the creativity begin!

3 thoughts on “Microsoft launches World Wide Telescope”

Betty May 15, 2008, 12:05 am

Jeff, I would like to share this with my readers. Is it okay? I can’t tell because of the licensing agreement above. It looks like a really cool site for science teachers.

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Scott May 15, 2008, 12:15 am

Personally, I prefer Stellarium…at first look, World Wide Telescope tries to cram in too much information, and it doesn’t give the user a good perspective of the sky in relationship to the ground. From the perspective of a student, it’s a bit confusing I do like the feature showing you what objects are in the portion of the sky you’re looking at, but I’d gladly give that up for the simplicity of Stellarium.

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Betty's Blog : Check out Microsoft's World Wide Telescope May 15, 2008, 11:12 am

[…] learn more from reading other bloggers than I do from listening to the news. Jeff’s post (The Thinking Stick) led me to the World Wide Telescope project launched by Microsolft this week. Oh, my! […]

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