www.worldwidetelescope.org - amazing
Microsoft has launched WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that stitches together images from some of the best ground and space-based telescopes. Collections include pictures from the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes, as well as the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The web-based tool also allows users to pan and zoom around the planets, and trace their locations in the night sky. Users can see the X-ray view of the sky, zoom into bright radiation clouds and then cross-fade into the visible light view, discovering the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago.
To use the new system, users need to download WorldWide Telescope from the web. It only runs on Windows operating systems. The web portal gives star-gazers access to terabytes of data. It allows them to explore planets, moons and other celestial objects and track their precise position in the sky from any location on Earth at any time in the past or future. WoW. Data from sources including the US space agency Nasa allows users to switch between views at different wavelengths and through different telescopes. Nasa contributed imagery from its Mars Rovers, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Anyone with windows can go to www.worldwidetelescope.org to get the needed and PLEASE if you do that let me know just how damn good it is. I am mac based and so I can not access this technology at all which is so frustrating!
