A lot has gone on over the last couple of years with WWT in the planetarium environment. WWT has long supported Fisheye and warped mirror dome full dome projection right out of the box, and multi-channel projection for larger domes, but multi-channel...

We are releasing a preview of the SDK documentations for people to get started using the WWT Web control and better documenting WTML, communities and other API's associated with WorldWide Telescope. Links to the on-line documentation can be found at http...

Well we have done it now. Just like sky-net, we have broken the bonds of installation and hopped on to the web. Last week we announced our preview of the new WWT Web client. The web client not only allows access to a large part of WWT's functionality...

Foreground Studies So there you are, happily making a tour and want to fade in a picture of some study. You get your camera all aligned, and then click on the thumbnail of the study. And then WWT promptly moves to a new position so that you can see the...

As you may or may not know, NASA's SkyView service (led by Tom McGlynn) has been extremely helpful to getting WWT running, providing data for over half our surveys. They've put out a heat map showing the most frequently accessed regions of the sky since...

We have put out a couple of tools for people to convert their own data to WWT format. You can process pictures of individual objects in the sky using WWT StudyChopper , and low and medium resolution panoramas, planetary textures, and sky surveys using...

Those using WWT today may notice some new datasets in there. Preliminary versions of these datasets have been in the WWT Data and Experimental communities for the past month. You can find them under All-Sky Surveys. The DSS Smoothed dataset is a initial...

During the recent 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, WWT unleashed a new update.  The new features in the Solstice Release, detailed quite nicely in a post on Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog , include stereo 3d – with both red...

Suppose you have a photograph of a small part of the sky, and you want to see it in WWT and share it with friends. Here’s how you can do so. We assume that the image (and, if you wish, a thumbnail) is already internet-accessible. All you need to do is...

Communities are the primary way in which WWT users can share data and tours with each other. They are made by external individuals or organizations, such as planetariums, science centres, astronomy clubs, magazines, blogs, schools, classes, and class...

WTML stands for Worldwide Telescope Markup Language. It is one of three file formats native to WWT, the others being WTT files to store tours and WWTFIG to store constellation figures. If you want to host any such files on your servers, you will need...

W always have more data in the works that has yet to make it to the main WWT datasets. If you would like to have a look at them, join these two communities. To join the WWT Data Community, click here ! The datasets in here are as reliable as other datasets...

Here are, in no particular order, some tips for WWT users. (PS: Anyone seen the new tours that went up this week, for WALL-E , the first pictures of extrasolar planets, and a farewell to the Phoenix Lander?) Q: How can I slow down the way WWT zooms? A1...

Today, the WorldWide Telescope gets an update ... a major update. Just have a look at this screenshot... That's right - WWT has gone 3D . You can fly through the Solar System now! And keep flying out, out through the hundred thousand stars in the Hipparcos...

Strictly speaking, the following post has got nothing to do with WWT being used in astronomy. Actually, that remains the case even if you remove the 'strictly speaking' qualifier. It is, however, rather cool. So... go have a look at the file kcyupanos...

Finally! The summer is almost done in the Seattle area and it will soon be ... rainy again. Rain is, of course, highly conducive to productivity as it forces folks to stay indoors and catch up on their debugging... More importantly, we've been working...

Users would like to use WWT to view their own images, and be able to share them with their friends. Some of this is possible already, and more work is happening at our end to make it easier to do so. This post is about a new metadata format out there...

Welcome to the WWT Data Blog. This is where we will post details of new data sets as they come in, and ask for volunteers to help us with data and image processing tasks. (Yes, we need volunteers - we're just a small group within Microsoft Research!)...

Hello - I'm the WWT Data Curator, and welcome to the WWT Data Blog. WWT is a collaborative project, and needs your suggestions, complaints, and help. If you can offer any assistance to us to make a dataset available through WWT, we want to know! WWT has...