Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope blasts off

Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope blasts off
AP ^ | May 13

SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience.

WorldWide Telescope, developed by Microsoft's research arm, knits together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others.

Computer users can browse through the galaxy on their own or take guided tours of different outer-space destinations developed by astronomers and academics.

The site lets users choose from a number of different telescopes and switch between different light wavelengths.

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org

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For those who are "optically challenged" (no telescope)