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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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TIME - WorldWideTelescope one of 50 Best Websites 2009
24 August 09 01:29 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

TIME magazine has the WorldWide Telescope WebClient ( Silverlight ) on their list of 50 Best Websites for 2009.  That puts WWT in with sites like Flickr, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, Amazon, and even PhotoSynth – not bad for the very small team we have Read More...

Filed under: Viz, WWT, Article

Preview the upcoming Eclipse of the Sun in WWT
06 July 09 03:20 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

On July 22nd there will be a total eclipse of the Sun that will last for over 6 mins that is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth.  One of the best regions to see it will be China and the organizers have published a 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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Microsoft Research TechFest 2009
24 February 09 10:31 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Today is the first day of the MSR TechFest 2009 – a showcase of MSR technologies – you can see pictures from TechFest.  One of the demos I’m loosely tied to is Interactions with an Omni-Directional Projector – which utilizes WorldWide Telescope projected Read More...

Filed under: Research, Viz, WWT

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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The Earth, Stars, and Planets in 3D
27 January 09 11:20 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

One of the coolest new features of the WWT Solstice Borealis Beta (released at the beginning of Jan) is the ability to see the Earth, Stars, and Planets in a stereoscopic 3D effect .  I’ve been using the Anaglyph mode (View |  {arrow} | Stereo 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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WALL•E's Universe in WorldWide Telescope
18 November 08 08:24 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Now this is fun science - Microsoft Research and Disney•Pixar team up to offer guided tours of the universe with WorldWide Telescope – how better to get our children interested in science and the universe – for most of us it was the Apollo Missions that Read More...

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How the WorldWide Telescope works
23 July 08 03:30 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Jon Udell gets the details from Jonathan Fay (no relation) on how WWT works.  How the WorldWide Telescope works Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay) Read More...

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WorldWide Telescope on Microsoft.com
11 July 08 04:47 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay) Read More...

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WorldWide Telescope is a powerful educational tool — a way of telling compelling stories about the Universe.
30 June 08 01:04 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

An On the Issues Essay came out last week featuring Alyssa Goodman , Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University.  Highlights how WWT can be used to not only browse and view the Universe – but can be a powerful tool to allow Astronomers to get to Read More...

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WorldWide Telescope - you haven't seen it?
15 May 08 11:18 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   

I decided to wait a bit before blogging about the release of WorldWide Telescope (WWT) to see how everything went and what the initial reaction would be.  After Curtis and Jonathan showed me an earlier version over 18 months ago - I knew they were Read More...

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