Microsoft WorldWide telescope is set to take on Google Sky online in space exploration and research. WorldWide Telescope will be available for free download for Windows OS when it is released in April this year, and the search for the demo video below, it promises to offer virtual tours of the universe unlike anything we have seen before online. Microsoft Research’s Roy Gould presented WorldWide Telescope at TED, where the audience was mesmerized as he explained galaxies far, far away.

“The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visual environment which operates as a virtual telescope, collecting images from the best terrestrial and space telescopes in the world for ease of integration, guided exploration of the universe.”

“WorldWide Telescope, developed with Microsoft Visual Experience High Performance Engine ™, allows pan and zoom seamless across the night sky mixing terabytes of images, data, and stories from multiple sources on the Internet in a medium rich, immersive experience. “