Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that allows users to explore
images of the sky at night, will be available at the end of May.
WorldWide
Telescope was developed using the company's Visual Experience Engine and
blends terabytes of images and data amassed from telescopes around the world
including Hubble.
"The WorldWide Telescope takes very complex data gathered over many years
from many telescopes and makes it accessible," said Microsoft chairman Bill
Gates during a speech in Jakarta.
Described as "an observatory on your desktop", WorldWide Telescope is widely
seen as a rival to Google Sky which launched in August 2007.
"It is going to change the way we do astronomy," said Dr Roy Gould from the
Harvard Centre for Astrophysics.
According to Gould the WorldWide Telescope project currently holds
information on around 300 solar systems.
"I think this will have as profound an impact on the way we view the universe
as Galileo did with the telescope a long time ago," he said.
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