Microsoft has released the WorldWide Telescope application, a desktop environment for visualizing the cosmos. Most early reports suggest that WorldWide Telescope is one of the finest educational applications ever developed. It was showcased earlier this year at the TED Conference in Monterey but not released to the public, and was then eclipsed by Google’s Space viewer - an excellent spinoff from another of the finest educational applications ever created - Google Earth.

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