July 20, 2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11’s historic landing on Earth’s Moon.
In WorldWide Telescope, you can visit the Moon in context in “Solar System” mode, or see what the Apollo astronauts saw on their various missions to the Moon during the 1960s and 1970s, in “Panorama” mode.
This is a tour developed by Professor Alyssa Goodman at Harvard University. This tour introduces cepheid variable stars and how the relationship between their pulsation periods and their luminosities has helped to estimate cosmic distances.... Read more about Cepheid Variable Stars and the Cosmic Distance Ladder
Explore the Universe through the eyes of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. WISE surveyed the entire sky in infrared light.... Read more about WISE: Seeing the Invisible
An introduction to the terminology of volcanism and a walkthrough of some of history's most famous volcanic eruptions.... Read more about Volcanic Earth
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.... Read more about Understanding the Moon's Phases
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.... Read more about Transit of Venus
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.... Read more about Seven Top Galaxies
Explains how astronomers are able to detect extrasolar planets and some findings from the TrES project and the promise of the Kepler telescope.... Read more about Search for Extra-Solar Planets
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 1025 meters in size.... Read more about Scales of the Universe in Powers of 10
