Information Madness

Microsoft has officially launched the public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, a rich web application that brings together imagery from the best ground and space based observatories across the world to allow people to easily explore the night sky through their computers.

“Users can see the X-ray view of the sky, zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then cross-fade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago,” said Roy Gould, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “I believe this new creation from Microsoft will have a profound impact on the way we view the universe.” - According to the press release from Microsoft. 

You can visit the WorldWide Telescope at WorldWideTelescope.org. So is it like Google Sky vs. Microsoft WorldWide Telescope?

While Google Earth has a component for Sky, Microsoft has dedicated WorldWideTelescope just to focus on the sky. Looks like WorldWide Telescope from Microsoft contains more in depth information about the galaxy and as it is a research project, astrologers and students studying astrology can get the benifit of WorldWide Telescope.

Google Sky can be viewed without downloading anything at Google.com/Sky while you will have to install WorldWide Telscope on your computer.

So now Yahoo will also launch its Sky version?? I don't think so but you never know.