| Free WorldWide Telescope Launched |
 Free WorldWide Telescope Launched 14 May 2008 Turn your PC into a mini-planetarium
 Warning: Nebula may appear closer than it actually is
It [the WorldWide telescope] has drawn lavish praise from some of the world's leading space scientists and educators, including Dr Roy Gould of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics.
"Galileo's telescope started to give us views of the universe that no one else had seen before and we started asking what was out there and why. And I think the WorldWide Telescope is going to do the same thing for the rest of us," he said in a telephone interview. "In terms of pushing the envelope, this really pushes the envelope." - SMH The program basically mirrors other online mapping tools, allowing users to interact with high-resolution images and data from leading astronomical research organizations.
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