Telescopes and Technology

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

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 explores the possibilities of the space elevator. Credits Tour created by: Phil Rosenfield Music: Phil Rosenfield Narration: Peter Turcan

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 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

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

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