WorldWide Telescope from Microsoft now works in browsers

28th April 2009

Last year, Microsoft had presented its response such products as Sky in Google Earth and Stellarium. The application was called WorldWide Telescope and could be installed like any other, into user PC. Now, Microsoft has announced a version of WorldWide Telescope, which operates directly in the browser. However, to do this you need to install Silverlight.
All main functions of the installed application moved to web, but some of the images with very high resolution remained “outboard”. However, this may only for the time being.
In WorldWide Telescope users can “travel” along the galaxy, using instead of ships with hiperengines (and other terrible words) the mouse scroll for approach/moving away and left click for moving the angle of view in a space. You can see, for example, how the constellations looked like 2 thousand years ago. Microsoft says that much of the planned is not still implemented and in the future there will appear more web versions of WorldWide Telescope.