It's quite a trick to stitch together terabytes of Hubble photographs, and Google with their mega-machine farm didn't yet succeed at making a clean version. Now Microsoft at their heels with WWT... here's the story
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/224
Supposedly going online this spring.
Given that Microsoft's previous mega-imaging projects like HDView and Virtual Earth work relatively well, and are quite "pretty", it should be quite promising.
http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=1879
http://maps.live.com/
Maybe I will hook up a large flat panel to my 2.5 inch internet-assisted imaging scope, and show off Hubble-style photos :)
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Received on Tue Mar 04 22:33:00 2008