_Microsoft Research originally released WorldWide Telescope 5 years back and for its 5th anniversary they have rolled out a new version with new features. WorldWide Telescope 5.0 is the latest version and is already in production use in World-Class planetariums. If you are unaware of WorldWide Telescope, The WorldWide Telescope is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground- and space-based telescopes to enable seamless, guided explorations of the universe. WorldWide Telescope, created with Microsoft’s high-performance Visual Experience Engine, enables seamless panning and zooming across the night sky blending terabytes of images, data and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a media-rich, immersive experience. The WorldWide Telescope experience scales from a web browser all the way to multi-channel full dome in some of the world’s most advanced planetariums. WorldWide Telescope 5.0 new features: True cinematic control for optimal animations and transitions with the Timeline Editor Highly detailed models of ISS, Gemini Observatory or import into your own 3d Models...

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