Our Solar System

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. Credits Alyssa...

New Horizons - A Pluto tour by Albert L. a 11th grade student from Cambridge, MA New Horizons Mission in WorldWide Telescope Credits A tour by Albert L. a 11th grade student from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge, MA

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.

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

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...

A visit to Pluto using WWT's new 3D mode, showing some of the reasons why it was reclassified as a dwarf planet. Credits Dinoj Surendan