Worldwide Telescope Adds Features

The WorldWide Telescope has enabled several new features the past week brought about by Microsoft Research. These new features bring an even richer visualization environment to the more than 1 million current WorldWide Telescope users and those who have yet to download the free application at http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/.

The new features include:

1. Three-Dimensional Solar System. View the entire solar system in 3Dwith light and shadows created from the sun. You can also watchplanets orbit around the sun and moons orbit around planets.
2. 1,000 New Images. More than 1,000 new panoramas and surveys from the Hubble, Spitzer, Mars and other earth and space-based telescopeshave been added.
3. WorldWide Telescope Wallpaper. Easily create your own Windows desktop wallpaper from views of any object in WorldWide Telescope.
4. Localized Content. WorldWide Telescope now offers a fully functioning simplified Chinese version. (Other languages will be added, but that plan in still in development).