Stars of All Ages

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 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

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

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 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...

A tour of Sloan Digital Sky Survey objects, highlighting features in their spectra. Credits Mark SubbaRao, Adler Planetarium

In this tour, we will take a look at some familiar stars in our night sky that are actually two or more stars together, and we will explore the question of why our Sun does not have any stellar companions. Credits Dr. Stella Offner, CFA

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