[nukkad] WorldWide Telescope, Google Sky / Google Earth

[Amir'AliMackwani <>]

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* May 13, 2008 *

Travel through the universe 
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Last night, Microsoft Research released WorldWide Telescope 
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free software that enables users to explore the universe with impressive 
content from the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, 
the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, and other famed ground- and 
space-based telescopes. Colorful nebulae, distant galaxies, black holes, 
and radiation clouds are all accessible from your desktop with a few 
clicks. The software has been released for free in honor of Jim Gray, a 
Microsoft researcher who was lost at sea last year.

Google Earth 
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added a similar feature called Google Sky with its Version 4.2 release. 
Google also offers a browser-based version of Google Sky 
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while Microsoft requires the download and installation of the WorldWide 
Telescope software. Google Sky is a bit more user friendly right now, 
but Microsoft has the advantage of a wealth of content. For example, 
Google Sky offers infrared, microwave, and historical views of objects 
in the universe; WorldWide Telescope allows nearly 50 different types of 
viewing, including infrared dust maps and cosmic microwave background, 
along with a bevy of other options that I couldn't even begin to explain.

Google Sky has the advantage of being quite a bit easier to pick up and 
use immediately, but in actuality, WorldWide Telescope is a totally 
different beast. Google Sky is a bonus feature that Google added onto 
its Earth-imagery application; WorldWide Telescope's primary objective 
is to create a visual representation of the universe on your desktop. 
You can peruse telescope images of Earth with WorldWide Telescope, but 
there's not the detailed satellite imagery of your neighborhood that you 
get in Google Earth...

Read more 
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-- 
Amir'Ali Mackwani.
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