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Experience
WorldWide Telescope
Immerse yourself in a seamless beautiful environment.
From web to desktop to full dome planetarium, WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables you to explore the universe, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world and combining it with 3D navigation. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky. You can research and import your own data and visualize it, then create a tour to share with others.
A web-based version of WorldWide Telescope is also available. This version enables seamless, guided explorations of the universe from within a web browser on PC and Intel Mac OS X by using the power of HTML5.
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WorldWide Telescope Eclipse Release Candidate now Available (June 20 2013)
Eclipse Release Candidate is here! The WWT Eclipse Advanced Release now supports DirectX11 and can run as a 64 bit application. At the IPS (International Planetarium Society) meeting in Baton Rouge, LA Microsoft Research previewed the WorldWide Telescope Eclipse release. Now you can explore the new features of WWT Eclipse in your planetarium. Try the new MIDI controller support, or the new atmospheric shaders, or one of the many new grid, overlay & text options and full dome tour authoring.

Click here for more information and to download Eclipse RC0
Worldwide Telescope HTML5 Web Control SDK Now Available
Now you can utilize WorldWide Telescopes powerful display engine in your own HTML5 application! You can support phones to tablet to desktops on Windows, Linux, IOS, MaxOS and more. The new HTML5 Web Control is a replacement to our existing Silverlight Web control that offers most of the capabilities of the existing control in an almost universal package. Now you place your images and data overlaid on any of WWT''s all sky backgrounds with just a few lines of code. Samples and a porting guide are available, as well as full SDK documentation.

Click here for more details.
New Planck Mission Data Available in WWT (Mar 21, 2013)
Planck launched in 2009 and has been collecting data ever since, analyzing the Cosmic Microwave Background. Today ESA and NASA are releasing the best map ever of the CMB. You can now see this data in WorldWide Telescope or preview it in our HTML5 Preview page Here. On the page is also the link to the WTML file that you can use to cross fade previous CMB images like WMAP, and compare them to the new Planck map. NASA s Planck Mission page can be found Here

See this data in WorldWide Telescope here.
Location-Based Data Visualization Using Excel and WorldWide Telescope
We have enhanced the WorldWide Telescope (WWT) to support science with a strong emphasis on time-series support and 3-D rendering. We offer an Excel Add-in ribbon to load location and time-based data into the WWT visualization environment. Such data, for example, can include latitude, longitude, magnitude, and depth for earthquakes. By installing the WorldWide Telescope Add-in for Excel, you highlight and load your data into WorldWide Telescope in seconds.

Download the WorldWide Telescope Add-in for Excel here.
WWT Ambassadors: WorldWide Telescope for Interactive Learning
The WorldWide Telescope Ambassadors Program (WWTA) is an innovative outreach initiative run by researchers at Harvard University, WGBH, and Microsoft Research. WWT Ambassadors are astrophysically-literate volunteers who are trained to be experts in using WWT as teaching tool. Ambassadors and learners alike use WWT to create dynamic, interactive Tours of the Universe, which are shared in schools, public venues, and online. Ambassador-created Tours are being made freely available and will ultimately form a comprehensive learning resource for Astronomy and Astrophysics. Potential Ambassadors, Teachers, and Students can learn more at http://www.wwtambassadors.org
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What is WorldWide Telescope?
What is WorldWide Telescope?
WWT is an application that runs in Windows that utilizes images and data stored on remote servers enabling you to explore some of the highest resolution imagery of the universe available in multiple wavelengths.
Learn more about WorldWide Telescope now
Take a Tour
Take a Tour
Watch and see what you are missing. Choose from one of the many guided tours within WorldWide Telescope to explore the rich interactive environment.
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Share the Experience
Share the Experience
Why keep the seamless exploration of the universe WorldWide Telescope can provide a secret? Tell your friends and family!
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