General Audience

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

Tour of M82 from the Hidden Universe Credits Robert Hurt

Our sun, and other stars like it, do not remain exactly as they appear now. Stellar lifetimes are much longer than ours, but like us, they progress though stages of life. The story of these stages tells us about the formation of the planets and their fate...

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...

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Galileo's discovery of moons around Jupiter, we have produced a WWT Tour recreating these historic observations. This is an example of the kind of teaching Ambassadors will be able to do using WWT. Credits Alyssa...

Fulani Skies was created with WWT for use in the Smithsonian Exhibit African Cosmos: Stellar Art exhibit that ran June 20, 2012—December 9, 2012. The African Cosmos project considers the rich, complex and little-studied topic of African cultural astronomy...

A brief tour of the Eta Carina Nebula from the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys. Credits Curtis Wong, MSR

A tour featuring the NASA map of our planet, "Earth at Night", available at the NASA Visible Earth site made by Marc Imhoff (NASA GSFC), Christopher Elvidge Credits Dinoj Surendran, MSR

A tour by David a 5th grade student from Issaquah, Washington Credits David, 5th grade student from Issaquah, Washington