Love astronomy? Take a look at this...

[Crissy]

Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope.

 

"The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.

 

Choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country. Feel free at any time to pause the tour, explore on your own (with multiple information sources for objects at your fingertips), and rejoin the tour where you left off. Join Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman on a journey showing how dust in the Milky Way Galaxy condenses into stars and planets. Take a tour with University of Chicago Cosmologist Mike Gladders two billion years into the past to see a gravitational lens bending the light from galaxies allowing you to see billions more years into the past. "

[percytruffle]

Thanks, that looks great! I'm downloading it now.

[Myra]

Thanks for sharing - I bookmarked this for my Fall 2008 astronomy unit. Any other ideas? Please share as I'm going to try to put together the unit over the summer.

 

Myra

[Crissy]

Thanks for sharing - I bookmarked this for my Fall 2008 astronomy unit. Any other ideas? Please share as I'm going to try to put together the unit over the summer.

 

Myra

 

Watch some of the guided tours included in the WWT. Maybe you'll get some ideas on how to expand on that information. I'll be doing the same, as we want to study astronomy over the summer.

[LisaCA]

I had heard about this site but had forgotten to check it out. We are studying astronomy next year.I