News about the latest WW Telescope release:

"Examine astronomical data in unprecedented detail. Take a Web tour of the universe. Explore the heavens in 3-D.

WorldWide Telescope keeps expanding its horizons.

On Aug. 17, the External Research division of Microsoft Research made public Aphelion, the latest release of WorldWide Telescope, the widely acclaimed, Windows-based application, launched in May 2008, that enables users to use their computers as a virtual telescope, gathering imagery from the world's best ground- and space-based telescopes to provide a seamless exploration of the universe."

""We have a significant number of rich science features that are going to be available to researchers," says Jonathan Fay, principal architect for the WorldWide Telescope project, "and we have a completely reworked data set for our beautiful, 3-D universe mode.""

You can find out more and download WorldWide Telescope here.