With Google Sky, the new free feature of Google Earth, you open a new era for the famous land navigation, Software
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With Google Sky, the new free feature of Google Earth, you open a new era for the famous land navigation, Microsoft World Wide Telescope
"The WorldWide Telescope is a powerful tool for science education that makes it possible for anyone to explore the universe" is Bill Gates to keep christening the new Microsoft software for space exploration, high-impact tool ( graphic and emotional) to help navigate the stars with a few clicks.
The WorldWide Telescope is nothing if not the counterpart of the corresponding Microsoft software Google Sky , but work is work in Redmond to the challenge: high-definition images, smooth transition between the planets, good interface usability. Microsoft does not conceal the desire to make the surprising strength of the service and, not surprisingly, use at some videos that reflect not the software but rather the gaping mouths of delighted kids struggling with their first experience among the stars.
The images used by Microsoft derive from shots taken from the earth as much space, if you are working on Hubble Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center and the Spitzer Space Telescope. "Users can see the sky through X-ray vision, zoom into bright radiation clouds [...], find inventories of a supernova thousands of years ago [...] I believe that the newly created Microsoft will have a profound impact in how we view the universe: Roy Gould, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, entrusts his words to the press release Microsoft enhancing the quality of service and his words is obvious enthusiasm for broadcast a product that can bring with strength especially the younger generation to what is in space, where only science fiction in the past has been able to carry the imagination.
Log on to the WorldWide Telescope is easy: simply download the appropriate application ( 20.8Mb ) from the official website , install and navigate. The service puts together something like 12 terabytes of data, the equivalent of over 2.5 million pages of text. Prerequisites: broadband connection and Microsoft. Net Framework 2.0. And a healthy curiosity for knowledge.
Microsoft software dedicated to Jim Gray, the researcher who more than any other in the past had gone into bringing the project forward. Jim Gray disappeared in early 2007 while sailing in the bay of San Francisco. Useless efforts of Google and Microsoft to search for the faithful collaborator of the two groups (he collaborated with Google to create Google Earth).
[Source: http://www.webnews.it ]
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