Straight out of MSR comes the (already rumored and anticipated) launch of he WorldWide Telescope (WWT), which is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe. WorldWide Telescope, created with Microsoft’s high-performance Visual Experience Engine™, enables seamless panning and zooming across the night sky blending terabytes of images, data, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a media-rich, immersive experience.

This beauty was announced while I was in Madrid, and I didn’t had time to pre-schedule a blogpost, but you can tune in to the announcement talk at TED if you want to know all about it. It will be made available to the public in Spring 2008. Start the countdown :)

Find it at http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
Download the clip at the TED site (HiRes)