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BBC NEWS | Technology | Virtual telescope opens night sky
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Virtual telescope opens night sky
Orion Nebula
The tool contains "terabytes" of data from observatories
Twirling galaxies, exotic nebulae and exploding stars are now just a mouse click away for amateur astronomers.
Microsoft has launched WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that stitches together images from some of the best ground- and space-based telescopes.
Collections include pictures from the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes, as well as the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
The web-based tool also allows users to pan and zoom around the planets, and trace their locations in the night sky.
"Users can see the X-ray view of the sky, zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then cross-fade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago," explained Roy Gould, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
"[It's] a beautiful platform for explaining and getting people excited about astronomy, and I think the professional astronomers will come to use it as well," said Roy Williams of the California Institute of Technology
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Elizabeth Taylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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celebrities
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabet...
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Born Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
27 February 1932 (1932-02-27) (age 76)
Hampstead, London, England
Other name(s) Liz Taylor
Years active 1942 - 2003
Spouse(s) Conrad Hilton Jr. (1950-1951)
Michael Wilding (1952-1957)
Mike Todd (1957-1958)
Eddie Fisher (1959-1964)
Richard Burton (1964-1974)
Richard Burton (1975-1976)
John Warner (1976-1982)
Larry Fortensky (1991-1996)
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932) is a two-time Academy Award-winning English-American actress. Known for her acting skills and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages, she is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden years, as well as a larger-than-life celebrity.
The American Film Institute named Taylor seventh among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time.
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Ancient Craters of Southern Rhea
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
Explanation: Saturn's ragged moon Rhea has one of the oldest surfaces known. Estimated as changing little in the past billion years, Rhea shows craters so old they no longer appear round - their edges have become compromised by more recent cratering. Like Earth's Moon, Rhea's rotation is locked on Saturn, and the above image shows part of Rhea's surface that always faces Saturn. Rhea's leading surface is more highly cratered than its trailing surface. Rhea is composed mostly of water-ice but is thought to include about 25 percent rock and metal. The above image was taken by the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn. Cassini swooped past Rhea last month and captured the above image from about 350,000 kilometers away. Rhea spans 1,500 kilometers making it Saturn's second largest moon after Titan. Several surface features on Rhea remain unexplained including large light patches like those seen near the image top.
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Thought of the Day
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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1978 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that they would no longer exclusively name hurricanes after women.
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