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 ...

Microsoft's unveiling of WorldWide Telescope, a research project six years in the making, not only provides a powerful means of accessing the mountains of astronomical image data that reside in ...

PASADENA, Calif.– Panoramic images of the sky obtained at Palomar Observatory and by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), plus pointed observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope, form 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 ...