AAS WorldWide Telescope â Web Client

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AAS Worldwide Telescope is a tool for showcasing astronomical data and knowledge.

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Feb 18, 2016	Microsoft migrates open-source WorldWide Telescope project to the American Astronomical Society	Microsoft has announced that its WorldWide Telescope (WWT) project is being offloaded from Microsoft’s research division and onto the American Astronomical Society (ASA), the professional body for astronomers in North America. To recap, WWT...
Feb 18, 2016	Microsoft migrates open-source WorldWide Telescope project to the American Astronomical Society	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Microsoft has announced that its WorldWide Telescope (WWT) project is being offloaded from Microsoft’s research division and onto the A...
Jan 9, 2015	Microsoft open-sources its worldwide telescope project	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 unified contextual visualization of the ...
Jan 8, 2015	Microsoft makes WorldWide Telescope open source	WorldWide Telescope is the best free astronomy program around, and comes packed with detailed views of the universe and tons of interactive educational content, including tours narrated by astronomers and experts. It’s used in schools, univ...
Mar 28, 2013	Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Brings The Universe To Your Fingertips	The Microsoft Research team is building an epic map of the universe using data and photographs collected from the many telescopes around the world, including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. They call it The WorldWide Telescope. There are rou...
Apr 14, 2011	Kinect SDK for Windows shown off, coming soon	reader comments 30 with 28 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit It has been in the cards for a while, but now it's been shown off for real: the Kinect SDK is coming to Windows. The beta w...
Apr 13, 2011	Live Blog: Microsoft MIX 2011 Day 2 – New Windows Phone 7 Features, Silverlight 5, Kinect SDK	Today we’re at Microsoft MIX, a developers conference in Las Vegas. Microsoft will be trying to woo developers and presenting on HTML5, Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight. Today we’re expecting to see more about mobile and Kinect. 9:05 The eve...
Jul 18, 2010	OpenStack: Rackspace and NASA Nebula Join Forces for Open Cloud Ecosystem	Rackspace and NASA are open-sourcing code and technology for people anywhere to create their own cloud environments. Called OpenStack, the initiative is one of the most substantive efforts to support interoperability in the cloud. As part o...
Jul 13, 2010	Mars in the spotlight of Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope	OK, this is great. It’s an updated version of Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope, and it’s all about Mars. Microsoft spent three years developing this new version of the application, with its engineers put together after studying super high-re...
Mar 17, 2010	The Worldwide Telescope Comes To Bing Maps	If you can’t tell your Belt of Orion from your Little Dipper, Microsoft is here to help. Today it added its WorldWide Telescope application to Bing Maps. The application let’s you look up at the sky from a street view level in a map and see...
Jul 20, 2009	Could Popfly's pop out be game over for Microsoft?	There's a strange foreshadowing in Microsoft naming its social mashup service Popfly. In baseball, pop fly is a ball hit straight up that comes straight down, usually into the catcher's mitt and to an out. Popfly is out, with Microsoft's de...
May 12, 2009	Google Sky Map: portable astronomy on your G1	The newest Android app from the Google team is looking pretty awesome, and if it works like it says it does, then I’m going to be having some fun times this weekend out in the country. Google Sky Map is basically a reality augmentation app ...
Mar 29, 2009	Microsoft: broadband stimulus should help schools, hospitals	reader comments 12 with 9 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The Microsoft corporation has weighed in on how the government should spend its billions in broadband stimulus money. The so...
Mar 25, 2009	100TB of NASA imagery coming to the WorldWide Telescope	reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Microsoft has teamed up with NASA to make planetary images and data available via the Internet under a Space Act Agreement. T...
Mar 25, 2009	Microsoft To Make NASA Content Available Through WorldWide Telescope	News Microsoft To Make NASA Content Available Through WorldWide Telescope By David NagelMarch 25, 2009 Microsoft announced this week that it's partnering with NASA to develop and deploy technology to deliver planetary images and data over t...
Mar 19, 2009	MIX09: Roundup of first keynote announcements	reader comments 1 with 1 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Bill Buxton, a Canadian computer scientist and designer, currently a Principal researcher at Microsoft Research, kicked off M...
Jan 12, 2009	WorldWide Telescope 2.2.41.1 released	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit One thing that Ballmer didn't discuss during his CES keynote last week was a small Microsoft project dubbed WorldWide Telescope...
Nov 19, 2008	Let WALL?E be your tour guide to the universe	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Microsoft Research and the Disney-owned Pixar are offering you a virtual tour of the universe. Your tour guide? WALL•E, the ani...
Oct 30, 2008	Hands on with Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope beta	On Wednesday, Microsoft announced the "Equinox" beta update to the WorldWide Telescope, its vast astronomical visualization software. We spent some time with the software to see how well you can navigate the universe in 3D. Since ...
Jul 21, 2008	WorldWide Telescope breaks 1 million download mark	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit When blogger Robert Scoble saw something at the Microsoft Research labs that made him cry, Microsoft bloggers couldn't stop gue...
May 14, 2008	First look: Peeking through Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Yesterday saw the first public beta release of Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope, the skyward companion to Microsoft Virtual Eart...
May 13, 2008	Microsoft's 'Telescope' to compete with Google 'Sky'	Download Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope Spring Beta! Not wasting any time in rebounding from its failed attempt to buy Yahoo, Microsoft is now readying its own response to Google Sky -- a tool known as Worldwide Telescope, which is set to ...
May 13, 2008	Microsoft's 'Worldwide Telescope' now available	Joining Google Sky and Stellarium is Microsoft’s entrant to the stars, Worldwide Telescope. I’ve been dinking around with it for about a half hour and it’s pretty cool. Check it out (Windows only) if you’re an outer space dork — it includes...
May 12, 2008	Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope Released	Microsoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth. We’ll have a detailed review up shortl...
Mar 13, 2008	Roundup: Google moves ‘Sky’ into the browser, Harvard grad server gets hacked and more	Here’s the latest action: Google moves ‘Sky’ into the browser — Google has a layer for Google Earth that is known as ‘Sky.’ Now the company has created a version for web browsers as well according to the Google Lat Long Blog. This browser-b...
Mar 3, 2008	Visible Body Brings Human Anatomy to the Browser	This morning Robert Scoble unveiled video of Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope project in action. It’s definitely worth watching (even if Scoble’s camera work is as amateurish as ever), because though it didn’t bring me to tears, it does loo...
Mar 3, 2008	Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope Demo Video	Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope is a web connected desktop app that renders a tiled tour of high resolution, zoomable images of the entire night sky, woven together from a number of different telescopes and satellites. It leverages a “3D t...

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