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Harvard’s ThinkSpace brings hard science to Cambridge grade schools | Harvard Gazette

November 20, 2017

Many people think seasons are caused by changing distance between the Earth and Sun, an idea that can be reinforced by misleading textbook diagrams. But that’s not the case. To help set the record straight, CfA experts designed the ThinkSpace (Thinking...

2017 Eclipse of the Sun

August 21, 2017

On the 21st of August, 2017, there will be a Solar Eclipse. Along a swath of the US from the Pacific Northwest to the Southeast, the Eclipse will appear as "total," meaning that the sky will acutally go dark, during the day, for a couple of minutes as the...

Astronomy and Education Team Brings the Universe Down to Earth

November 16, 2016

Read about the NSF-funded collaboration between Bucknell, Harvard and Microsoft is building better tools to introduce astronomical essentials. http://www.bucknell.edu/news-and-media/2016/november/astronomy-and-educ…...

Tour Authoring in the webclient

September 21, 2016

What’s New in the American Astronomical Society WorldWide Telescope (September 2016) Most of the work under the AAS has been to migrate the advanced visualization functionality and tour authoring capability of the Windows Desktop Client to the Web Client...

AAS Announces WWT Tour Competition

September 21, 2016

Add Event Links Dates: Sep 21 to Dec 16, 2016 Winners to be notified by Dec 31, 2016 and publicly announced at AAS 229, Jan 3-7, 2017 in Grapevine, TX Full Details: AAS 2016 WWT Tour competition The American Astronomical Society has announced a...

A different view of the universe

July 05, 2016

WWTA's Life In the Universe Project (LITU) with Middle School students from Boston Public schools is featured in the Harvard Gazette. Read the full story: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/07/a-different-view-of-the-un...

WWT featured in NOVA's "How to Find a Galaxy"

February 10, 2016

NOVA and WWTA have collaborated to integrate WorldWide Telescope visualizations from the John Huchra's Universe Tour into this story of how scientists like Margaret Geller understand the location and distribution of galaxies in our universe. Enjoy!

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WorldWide Telescope Has a New Home: The AAS

January 07, 2016

" On 4 January 2016 the Council of the American Astronomical Society voted to make the AAS the institutional home of WorldWide Telescope (WWT) , a "Universe Information System" that allows users to retrieve and share data using an interface that resembles...

WWT at World Science Festival

May 31, 2015

WorldWide Telescope Ambassadors - Pat Udomprasert, Erin Johnson, Mary Becker and Juliana Garcia-Mejia share WWT with thousands as part of the 2015 Ultimate Science Street Fair. Kids of all ages donned 3D glasses and explored the virtual universe!

What can WWT do for me?

March 11, 2015

Many people ask how WorldWide Telescope (WWT) can be used for their individual, yet varied needs. Watch and learn how WWT is used by professional astronomers, educators, planetarium staff and astronomy enthusiasts for various purposes. Links from video...

WWT Stories

January 20, 2015

In conjunction with the announcement that Microsoft is Open-Sourcing WWT, we've collected a number of " WWT Stories" which illustrate how WWT is used in various settings. The range is downright astonishing: WWT can be used to reach such different...

OpenWWT - Microsoft is Open-Sourcing WWT

January 12, 2015

Why is this great news? Millions of people rely on WorldWide Telescope (WWT) as their unified astronomical image and data environment for exploratory research, teaching, and public outreach. With OpenWWT, any individual or organization will be able to...