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Microsoft Worldwide Telescope - Teach Astronomy

Worldwide Telescope is a free Microsoft application that lets you travel through outer space. You can pan in and zoom in close to moons, planets, solar systems and galaxies. Images are taken from the Hubble Space Telescope and ten earth-bound telescopes.

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

Worldwide Telescope (WWT) also contains a number of guided tours, some of them created by famous scientists. A few examples of guided tours are: "Dark Matter", "The First Black Hole" and "Beautiful Nebulas". There are also guided tours to learn to use the software interface of WWT.

To learn more about Ms World wide Telescope, you can view the following Youtube video where science educator Roy Gould of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics intruduces the Worldwide Telescope.

“The WorldWide Telescope takes the best images from the greatest telescopes on Earth ... and in space ... and assembles them into a seamless, holistic view of the universe. This new resource will change the way we do astronomy ... the way we teach astronomy ... and, most importantly, I think it's going to change the way we see ourselves in the universe,”
Roy Gould

The Worldwide Telescope was released by Microsoft Research in 2008.

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Science

Written September 1, 2008

User Reviews & Comments

04/30/2010 elijah

thanks to Microsoft for letting user to download for free this kind of software. it's a big help for parents to teach children about astronomy.

03/25/2010 palitha baddegama

I am a IT Instructor in Education dept. in sri lanka. Pls. help us for this software

03/25/2010 pradeep

Thanks very much. I think i'll be better by used this program i want to ,amke my ankita a astronot

03/06/2010 pks

Thanks very much. I think i'll be better by used this program

03/06/2010 Omario

Space is my place, I want to enjoy that!

02/15/2010 jyle lavyne

i like to have this one since i found it very interesting.

02/12/2010 N KBHATT

Very Great Efforts to arouse interest in astronamy

02/08/2010 ashwini kale

your games are so nice

01/09/2010 tag

thank s for this amazing software .

10/24/2009 A S ARGI

Thanks

10/21/2009 Gis ella

quisiea poder tener los intaladores de este programa science para poder enseñar con el gracias

09/12/2009 iddrisu

I WOULD LIKE TO USE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLANETS AND TO TEACH OTHERS.

07/29/2009 janak

Never expected such a good software

07/11/2009 Dip.pakyntein

I wanted my children to know about space and the planets.

06/02/2009 bigmumo

amazing for my kids

05/13/2009 RAVINDER JEET SINGH

I WOULD LIKE TO USE THE SOFTWARE FOR TEACHING IN CLASSROOM

05/12/2009 R.A. Ifraheem

this a good opp for child to learn about space

04/29/2009 juan josé

I want to enjoy this space program

04/10/2009 Desra Eka Putra

Very smart software

04/03/2009 aspirant

i like your efforts, keep it up!!!!!

02/22/2009 armen

Thanks very much. I think i'll be better by used this program.

02/01/2009 Shihab

I want to enjoy the adventure of space

01/22/2009 sahil

greater than good

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