Traveling through universe wouldn’t be something beyond your expectations right now. It’s as close as your keyboard and it’s not a joke since Microsoft unveiled its online Worldwide Telescope last week. I smell something like rivalry to GoogleEarth, isn’t it? Officially, the program was developed in partnership between NASA, Microsoft, and several research institutions like the California Institute of Technology.
The Telescope uses the best high-resolution imagery that’s been generated both here on earth and in space. The images then joined together to put celestial objects in the correct perspective also with their natural positions in the sky.
You can peer through telescopes such as Hubble or Chandra X-Ray Observatory directly from your computer. You can easily roam through galaxies, observing planets and asteroids, and guided by astronomers and professors. Different wavelength of lights is available for users to reveal the hidden structures.
Jim Gray was a Microsoft computer scientist who conceived this effort as a way to make universe accessible to everyone. The program is available for free at worldwidetelescope.org
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