This was going to be a post about a telescope, or rather a computer that mimics a telescope.  Specifically Microsoft Research’s Worldwide Telescope, which uses data from the Hubble telescope, as well as ten other earth-bound telescopes, to allow users to fly through outer space, zooming out or swooping in as close as the data [...]

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Space just got more interesting: Universe Sandbox is a great program that lets you experiment with whole solar systems. One forum commenter says that “as a physics graduate this is possibly the coolest thing I have ever downloaded” - watch the video and you’ll see why:

The software is Windows only, and it isn’t free - [...]

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