After Google Earth showing constellations, moon & images from the Hubble Telescope on your desktop , Microsoft has released the desktop telescope software free .

Named the Microsoft WorldWide Telescope , it is a free desktop software that shows pictures of galaxies , planets & various space objects including dark matters.

This is a great tool for kids & children to know the stars & our planetary systems & a great free astronomy software for anyone who wants to be aware of basic astronomy.

You can download Microsoft WorldWide Telescope desktop Hubble software free .

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

WorldWide Telescope is like a personal Hubble Telescope on desktop . It lets panning and zooming around the night sky, planets , and image environments.  The free telescope image software lets you view the sky from multiple wavelengths.

You can see the x-ray view of the sky and zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then fade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago.

Or you can use the Hydrogen Alpha view to see the distribution and illumination of massive primordial hydrogen cloud structures lit up by the high energy radiation coming from nearby stars in the Milky Way .

Microsoft has dedicated the free WorldWide Desktop Telescope Software to the memory of the Turing Award winning American scientist Jim Gray .

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