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Amazon Web Services support Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 Subset
29 September 09 02:11 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Now that AWS is supporting SDSS, there is probably useful integration between the Worldwide Telescope and the SDSS datasets that can be leveraged, beyond what is currently supported - such as seeing the all the known galaxies in a 3D view – seeing the Read More...

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Citizen Science Impact: Hanny’s Voorwerp and the Galaxy Zoo
21 May 09 08:51 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

If you ever wonder what how normal citizens can have an impact in science – take a listen to the latest Podcast from 365 Days of Astronomy and how a mild manner school teacher from the Netherlands found a strange object while participating in Galaxy Zoo Read More...

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WorldWide Telescope – Busy couple of weeks – NASA and SilverLight
25 March 09 01:53 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Yesterday the joint press release went out on the collaboration and Space Act Agreement we’re been working on with NASA for sometime.  We’re really excited about working with NASA to process many datasets like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Read More...

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WWT at TechFest on NYTimes.com
02 March 09 08:49 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

The NYTimes.com article by Ashlee Vance , included a great picture by Stuart Isett for The New York Times showing the dome that was put together for TechFest to demonstrate the planetarium projection mode of WWT as well as the gesture interaction from Read More...

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Using Flickr for Astronomy – and viewing in WWT
20 February 09 02:55 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

The use of online services such as Flickr to help scientists is in its infancy and applications utilizing commodity based solutions will continue to pick up momentum.  I especially like the integration and the ease of use – science should be about Read More...

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WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit Release -Microsoft Research
21 January 09 02:21 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

With this ADK , users can convert their own astronomical images/data to the format that can be read by WWT and share with other WWT users.  Can’t wait to see more images/datasets made available. WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit, January Read More...

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