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A brief overview of selected features in the new Equinox Beta release. Credits Curtis Wong, Microsoft Research The full version of this tour can be downloaded here (by right-clicking) and viewed in the desktop version of WorldWide Telescope.

Explore the Universe through the eyes of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. WISE surveyed the entire sky in infrared light. Credits Nancy Alima Ali, Bryan Mendez, Kyle Fricke, UC Berkeley, CSE@SSL

This Tour is designed to help users understand the cause of Moon phases and be able to predict where the Moon is relative to the Sun and Earth during a particular phase, and vice versa. The Tour encourages users to check their understanding at the end by...

This tour discusses the history and significance of the Transit of Venus in front of the Sun, an event which allowed astronomers to determine the size scale of our solar system. Credits Jonathan Jackson, Harvard College

This tour gives a quick overview of some of WWT's main features, allowing the user choose what parts of the universe to explore. User may choose from the following: Our Solar System Orion in 3-D Our Milky Way A Galaxy Cluster in 3-D Earth The Surface of...

This tour explores the possibilities of the space elevator. Credits Tour created by: Phil Rosenfield Music: Phil Rosenfield Narration: Peter Turcan

Explains how astronomers are able to detect extrasolar planets and some findings from the TrES project and the promise of the Kepler telescope. Narrated and produced by Sanjana Sharma. This tour has a nice animation sequence that shows how an orbiting...

This tour takes you on a journey that spans 25 orders of magnitude, beginning on Earth, looking at objects roughly one meter in size, and spanning the Universe to scales that are roughly 10 25 meters in size. The tour stops at several points and gives you...

John Huchra, former president of the American Astronomical Society, passed away on October 8, 2010. John’s colleagues at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in collaboration with the creators of WorldWide Telescope at Microsoft Research, have...