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WorldWide Telescope

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Description

WorldWide Telescope is an interactive scientific data-visualization and aggregation software package developed by Microsoft Research, with astronomical imagery, a 3D Universe, and narrated interactive tours.

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  • WorldWide Telescope as a module-development technology requiring the least technical experience: WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is described as "an interactive scientific data visualization and aggregation package developed by Microsoft Research," offering all-sky and high-resolution astronomical imagery and a 3D Universe visualization. Its key authoring feature is interactive narrated tours built from slides, which users can pause and manipulate during playback. The article identifies it as requiring "the least technical/programming experience of any of the technologies described here." (Nathan E. Sanders et al. (2013))

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Key Sources

  • Nathan E. Sanders, Chris Faesi, Alyssa A. Goodman. (2013). A New Approach to Developing Interactive Software Modules through Graduate Education. https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1908
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title WorldWide Telescope
description WorldWide Telescope is an interactive scientific data-visualization and aggregation software package developed by Microsoft Research, with astronomical imagery, a 3D Universe, and narrated interactive tours.
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generated by process:sweep-kinds on 2026-10-10
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