Does the sky fascinate you? Don’t you just wish you can really just reach out and unravel the mysteries hidden in its vastness? Well, now you probably can with Microsoft’s newly launched software application called WorldWide Telescope. With this software at your convenience, you don’t need to leave your home planet just to get a close look at the planets, the stars, and galaxies. Worldwide Telescope brings together 12 terabytes of pictures taken by the different devices including the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center. Confirmed astronomers or would-be astronomers will have a field day with the Worldwide Telescope at their convenience.

With this software, Microsoft hopes to encourage children to grow interested in the things that make up space and the universe. The information to be found in the numerous pictures provided by the software would be a big help in giving them new and more advanced information than what can be found in books. Using the software is also a fun way to learn because users can zoom in the galaxies and stars, so a much clearer view can be had.

Another great news is that WorldWide Telescope will be released free of charge! I think this offer and this software are totally amazing!