Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope blasts off

Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience.

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Washington, D.C. – Microsoft is catching up with Google and said it has signed an agreement to make planetary images and other data available to the public via the WorldWide Telescope website.

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Yesterday saw the first public beta release of Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope, the skyward companion to Microsoft Virtual Earth.

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Microsoft Research is launching a free application today that lets people navigate deep into the universe and view galaxies, nebulae, planets and other celestial objects through the lenses of the world's best observatories.

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