Microsoft and open source are two concepts that go hand in hand more often (see., For example, the changes introduced with Visual Studio 2015 and .Net 2015 ). Follow the road of open source also the evolutionary path of WWT , which stands for WorldWide Telescope, the astronomical software, result of a project at Microsoft Research, which allows you to explore the sky drawing from a variety of sources, from the images sent by the Hubble Space Telescope, to those collected by many telescopes that scan the space from Earth.
WWT is poised to become OpenWWT and, as such, to be open to the community of developers will be free to modify and enhance the software. An important new evolutionary step of the project opened in 2007 and carried forward by Microsoft in collaboration with leading universities and research institutions, including Harvard and Caltech, Academic and Research Institute of NASA.
The choice to make open-source software enabling each (in possession of adequate technical preparation) to adapt and expand WorldWide Telescope for use in new projects in education and research. To achieve this goal, Microsoft is preparing a special consortium in charge of the transition path WWT by Microsoft Research in a new organization, portandone forward development.
The ultimate objectives pursued by Microsoft with the project and WWT his recent assumption of the robe open-source concerning the evolution of astronomical research, strengthening teaching astronomical formal and informal, and public awareness on the issues mentioned above.
Both those who have never heard of the software and want to try downloading it to your PC or by starting the web client, and stakeholders to shape the future of the WorldWide Telescope, in collaboration with the Consortium OpenWWT can find all necessary information by connecting to the official website of the project.
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