Microsoft Corp. launched its highly anticipated WorldWide Telescope on Monday night, allowing users to surf through images from around the universe for free. WorldWide Telescope knits together images ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a ...

Ever look up into the night sky and wonder about any of those twinkling points of light? Wish you could get a closer look? Maybe via a guided tour by a world-renowned astronomer? Well, if you did, you ...

Microsoft has now released, in beta form, its long-awaited WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that pieces together some of the world's best ground telescope and satellite images, using data and imagery ...

Microsoft announced today that it will open-source its WorldWide Telescope project (WWT). Begun in 2007, the WWT was founded as a collaborative institutional program with the goal of creating "a free ...

Look down, you see Google Earth, look up, it’s Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope. Well, that’s how Microsoft sees it. So far, they may-well be right.

Microsoft has just announced that its “WorldWide Telescope” project (WWT) will hit open-source. WWT is the Google Earth of astronomy; a premiere online resource that allows users to create scripted ...

The first images, including high-resolution pictures of Mars and the moon, are expected to be available starting later this year and could eventually exceed 100 TB of information, Microsoft said.