WorldWide Telescope

WorldWide Telescope is a visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope.

WorldWide Telescope is a visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope bringing together imagery from ground- and space-based telescopes to enable seamless, guided explorations of the universe. WorldWide Telescope, created with Microsoft’s high-performance Visual Experience Engine, enables seamless panning and zooming across the night sky blending terabytes of images, data, and stories from multiple sources over the internet into a media-rich, immersive experience. Its experience scales from a web browser all the way to multichannel full dome in some of the world's most advanced planetariums. The web application enables its users to freely browse through the solar system, galaxy, and beyond, or take advantage of a growing number of guided tours of the sky hosted by astronomers and educators at major universities and planetariums. WorldWide Telescope was launched by Microsoft, a software corporation that develops licensed and support products and services ranging from personal use to enterprise applications.