Constellations

A tour exploring what constellations are and why we can't see all of them at all times during the year.

A brief tour of the X-Ray sky and a look at sources of high energy X-Rays Credits Curtis Wong, MSR

A Tour introducing ways you can use WWT in both formal and informal educational settings. Lisa walks you through many of the key features in the WWT interface. This tour gives an overview of these WWT features: how to pause while viewing a tour, explore...

Multiple Generations of Star Formation in the W5 region from Spitzer Space Telescope. Credits Lori Allen, Xavier Koenig, Sanjana Sharma

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...

Amateur astronomers love to observe galaxies. Although you need a dark site, you can spot some galaxies even through small telescopes. This tour shows you seven of the sky's finest galaxies. Credits Michael Bakich, Astronomy Magazine

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...

A 6-year old's journey to the jewel of the sky. This charming Tour is a great example of how WWT can be used to engage even the youngest students in astronomy and science. The Tour-authoring interface might seem daunting to some adults ("digital...

Star and planet formation in the Orion Nebula as shown in images from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credits Frank Summers

Here are several open star clusters that you can identify without binoculars or a telescope from a dark-sky site. Credits Jeremy McGovern