In February, Robert Scoble wrote (
http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/14/mic...s-make-me-cry/) that Microsoft researchers showed him something that made him cry. At the time, he couldn't write about it, but it turned out to be this project, the Microsoft WorldWide Telescope (
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/).
It's a desktop application, so you do have to download and install it. Think of it as a Google Earth (
http://earth.google.com/) for space.
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*Source: Tech-Ex (
http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com...-brings.html)*
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