WWT in the News

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…...

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...

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!

" 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...

Astronomy "ambassadors" help students to explore the heavens. The Worldwide Telescope Ambassadors Program is the brainchild of astronomy Professor Alyssa Goodman , who has been working with Microsoft programmers for several years on their Internet-based...

The International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics is the biggest annual astronomy competition for high school students, aiming to promote astronomy and astrophysics in education. Now at the 7th edition, IOAA gathered teams of up to 5 students from...