.NET 基金会项目介绍-WorldWide Telescope

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WorldWide Telescope 是属于 .Net 基金会的一个项目，本文将简要介绍该项目相关的信息。

中文介绍

中文介绍内容翻译自英文介绍，主要采用意译、如与原文存在出入，请以原文为准。

WorldWide Telescope

WorldWide Telescope 是一种可视化环境，它使计算机能够充当虚拟望远镜，将世界上最好的地面和空间望远镜的档案图像汇集在一起，用于探索宇宙。WorldWide Telescope 将来自多个来源的 PB 图像、信息和故事融合到无缝、身临其境的富媒体体验中。

WorldWide Telescope 允许简单和直接地访问天体的观测和所有电磁频谱范围内的所有天空测量。它汇集了许多令人印象深刻的天体档案——由哈勃太空望远镜、钱德拉X射线天文台、斯皮策太空望远镜、斯隆数字天空等仪器精心构建的天体收藏调查（SDSS）、两个微米全天空勘测（2MASS）、普朗克和许多其他调查，同时为其他存档数据源以及尚未进行的观测提供了轻松集成。此外，它还展示了一个宇宙的3D模型，其中详细描绘了行星表面，以及银河系的代表性模型，以及斯隆数字天空调查的星系分布。

WorldWide Telescope 中的数据不仅具有可读性，而且很容易集成。它们以促进综合研究的形式呈现，从而有助于弥合前沿研究、教育和公众理解之间的差距。

WorldWide Telescope 是科学亲民化的重要一步，它使互联网成为”世界上最好的望远镜”——一台名副其实的超级计算机，同时在 Web 客户端版本中实现了大部分功能。

项目详情

官方网站
项目源码
项目许可证: MIT
项目联系人: Peter K. G. Williams

笔者简评

笔者其实很想把 WorldWide Telescope 翻译为 “宇宙之眼”。通过它，你完全可以手动了解宇宙中众多已知的天体和环境。

该项目是一个站点项目，其核心是应用了 WebGL 在浏览器上进行了图形化展示。当然，这部分实现的核心不是 .Net ，而是采用 js 相关的库进行完成。

英文介绍

WorldWide Telescope

WorldWide Telescope is a visualization environment that enables a computer to function as a virtual telescope — bringing together archival imagery from the world’s best ground- and space-based telescopes for the exploration of the Universe. WorldWide Telescope blends petabytes of images, information, and stories from multiple sources into a seamless, immersive, rich media experience. WorldWide Telescope allows simple and direct access to observations of celestial objects and all sky surveys over the full range of the electromagnetic spectrum. It brings together many impressive archives of celestial objects – collections painstakingly constructed from observations by such instruments as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), Planck, and many others while providing easy integration for other archival data sources as well as observations yet to be made. In addition, it presents a 3D model of the Universe with detailed imagery of planetary surfaces and a representative model of the Milky Way as well as the distribution of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

The data in WorldWide Telescope are not only readily accessible; they are presented in a form that facilitates integrative research, thereby helping to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research, education, and public understanding. WorldWide Telescope represents a major step toward the democratization of science, and it has turned the Internet into “the world´s best telescope” — a veritable supercomputer at your desktop while also enabling most of that functionality in a web client version.