***”We may be tiny, but we are truly, wonderfully significant”***
Roy Gould, researcher at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, gave a presentation on TED TALKS announcing the arrival this spring of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT), sometimes called the Virtual Observatory, a new software capability created by Microsoft that takes the best raw images from all our most powerful telescopes and weaves them together seamlessly, producing an holistic view of the universe. This, on the 400th anniversary of Galileo looking for the first time at the heavens through a telescope. Seeing across the entire spectrum of light to worlds previously invisible, Gould says, is a transformative experience and we will soon have a very different idea about who we are within the context of the greater whole. Not surprisingly, he suggests that everything about astronomy and astronomy education will be changed. The best part for any and everybody: the software will be downloadable, and it will be free.
View this inspiring and exciting announcement of the WorldWide Telescope HERE on TED TALKS. And see some initial reactions to the WWT.
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