Worldwide Telescope

Our understanding and knowledge of space is miniscule (especially mine), and there are vast areas of space that are yet to be discovered, yet alone be explored by the human race of planet Earth. However, the ability to view the stars is no longer limited to only the amateur astrologists with a telescope in the back garden.

BillG donated a pocket full of cash and the skill set of Microsoft to the “Worldwide Telescope” project. The project aimed to build one of the biggest telescopes to photograph the night skies and create a “Google Earth” style star chart plotting the galaxy and linking in a vast amount of information based on about what we understand of the universe and bringing it to the masses.

It was an ambitious project and the end result will be a centralised mass of many terabytes of the mysteries of the universe that will only grow as our understanding deepens.

Check out more on the project here.