WorldWide Telescope’s new sky imagery and the Mars experience

The latest release of WorldWide Telescope, the Apogee release, has a new version of the sky imagery and, as a bonus, the Mars experience. If you already have the desktop client version of WWT installed, you’ll be prompted to download and install the new version. This update gives you WWT | Mars as well as [...]

WorldWide Telescope now part of Bing Maps – Look up and see

A new application has been added to Bing Maps, namely the WorldWide Telescope app that enables us to look up and see. To use this app, follow these steps: Go to www.bing.com/maps/explore. If this link doesn’t work (e.g., if you’re in Australia, you’ll end up at the Australian version of Bing Maps), you’ll need to [...]

Journey to the centre of the universe with WorldWide Telescope – webDotWiz Online Sep 24 2009

To begin your journey to the centre of the universe, you need to download and install the Windows desktop version of WorldWide Telescope from www.worldwidetelescope.org. If you find your computer is a bit old and the graphics aren’t up to running WWT (we’ll use this abbreviation for WorldWide Telescope to save screen space) or if [...]