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Microsoft Research Open Sources WorldWide Telescope

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 2, 2015 @08:04AM from the they're-looking-at-you dept.

kfogel writes: Microsoft Research has open sourced WorldWide Telescope, releasing it under the MIT license and donating the code to the .NET Foundation. The code is up on GitHub at github.com/WorldWideTelescope, and there are demos and more details at WorldWideTelescope.org. Go forth and explore!

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So...what is this? by Sowelu · 2015-07-02 08:08 · Score: 3, Insightful

I looked briefly through TFA but they're really uninformative when it comes to summarizing (or they're full of giant pictures and videos). What's the significance of this thing? Is it just Google Earth for stars? Why does it need a client?