Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

One of scientific projects of Microsoft corporation, WorldWide Telescope, is available now to guests of the Moscow planetarium.In the “Lunarium” hall of the Moscow planetarium the interactive stand where using Kinect sensor the visitors of planetarium can make virtual rounds to stars started working, get acquainted with secrets of the Universe and in literal sense to concern the worlds remote from Earth on thousands light years.

The WorldWide Telescope program represents cloudy storage of data on our Universe, combining terabytes of the images received from telescopes and space stations, in one huge panorama of the Universe.

This project of research division of Microsoft Research allows to consider in details planets of Solar system and Earth, to study constellations and to observe already occurred heavenly phenomena, and also what else will occur.

“Computerworld”