Hey Rom, you have to check this out, Scoble was raving about this a week ago. Microsoft Research labs have developed an amazing visualisation tool to observe over 4 Terabytes of astronomical data from telescopes across the world – its called World Wide Telescope. It was announced at the recent TED conference this february with huge applause. This could change the way astronomy is viewed by many – especially the young. I wish Carl was still here to push it as he would have been the perfect person to announce it!
Hey Rom, you have to check this out, Scoble was raving about this a week ago. Microsoft Research labs have developed an amazing visualisation tool to observe over 4 Terabytes of astronomical data from telescopes across the world – its called World Wide Telescope. It was announced at the recent TED conference this february with huge applause. This could change the way astronomy is viewed by many – especially the young. I wish Carl was still here to push it as he would have been the perfect person to announce it!
The website is http://worldwidetelescope.org
the free software will be available for download later this year.
The TEDs announcement is here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/224
Love Rich!!