WorldWide Telescope


	WorldWide Telescope

deb2012

5-24-2008 9:38 PM

247 views

tags:

space, science, msft

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

View the Top Clips from May 24, 2008

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/254806cf-2982-44fe-a50a-de327a59e17f/A46473A1-6AFF-4792-80E1-C69DC3236353/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-12WWTPR.mspx" href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-12WWTPR.mspx" style="font-size: 11px;">www.microsoft.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-12WWTPR.mspx">The final frontier got a bit closer today as Microsoft Corp. officially launched 
the public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, which is now available at <A 
href="http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/">http://www.worldwidetelescope.org</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-12WWTPR.mspx">“The WorldWide Telescope is a powerful tool for science and education that makes 
it possible for everyone to explore the universe,” said Bill Gates, chairman of 
Microsoft.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-12WWTPR.mspx">The application itself is a blend of software and Web 2.0 services </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-12WWTPR.mspx">WorldWide Telescope stitches together terabytes of high-resolution images of 
celestial bodies and displays them in a way that relates to their actual 
position in the sky.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-12WWTPR.mspx">Users can choose which telescope they want to look through, including the Hubble 
Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Spitzer Space 
Telescope or others.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-12WWTPR.mspx">They can view the universe through different wavelengths of light to reveal 
hidden structures in other parts of the galaxy. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A46473A1-6AFF-4792-80E1-C69DC3236353/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from deb2012

Today's Top Clips