World Wide Telescope (1 Viewer)

[Tapxe]

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

The WorldWide Telescope from Microsoft Research offers a rich visualization environment that essentially provides you with a virtual telescope. This package brings together amazing imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope and approximately 10 earthbound telescopes. The images are stitched together seamlessly, allowing you to pan around outer space and zoom as far into any one area as the data will allow. The user interface (Figure B) makes galactic exploration easy, right from your computer.
Figure B

The WorldWide Telescope allows you scan the through outer space and focus in on heavenly bodies that interest you.

Ever wanted your own Hubble telescope? Well, now you have it.

 

[Tapxe]

No love for the universe? I've not tried it yet. Haven't been home long enough to work with it and at the office I use a VM which isn't supported by the app. Anyone test it out yet?

 

[BHM]

I just played around with it. It is pretty cool. You will need to install MS Silverlight. From the site you can look at planets and you can even see uranus.