Telescope Images realeased - huge stars found.

Sethu Maathavan a year ago Region: Alaska

NASA recently released new images of RCW 108 taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. The images shows that there were  more massive star candidates in that region more than expected in... more

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Citizen Desktop Astronomy, Courtesy of Microsoft

David Brant a year ago Region: Washington

Microsoft Corporation and some of the United States' best observatories, universities, and planetariums have gotten together to put the cosmos at one's fingertips with a free program called the WorldWide Telescope.  ... more

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Virtual telescope news

Stephen H. Indeck a year ago Region: Washington

Recently Microsoft lunched worldwide Telescope, a free tool that stitches together images from some of the best ground- and space-based telescopes. The web-based tool also allows users to pan and zoom around the planets, a... more

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