Offer the program as a tribute to an investigator disappeared.
Includes 12 terabytes of images from space telescopes.
The software will compete with Google Sky.



Any fan of Star Trek knows that travel through space is not easy, but Microsoft wants to make it possible to reach the final frontier as easy as turning on your computer. The computer giant has launched a program called Worldwide Telescope that allows all Internet explorer galaxies, solar systems and distant planets.



The information provided Worldwide Telescope took 12 terabytes, the equivalent of 2,600 million pages of text, and includes photographs of the Hubble telescope, the Centre Chandra and Spitzer space telescope.

The experience is similar to that used to be playing a video game or allowing those who use the program, which can be downloaded version and evidence, Approaching and departing at galaxies located thousands of light years.

It is not the only product of its kind currently in existence. Google, Microsoft also has archrival of looking at the sky and prepares the launch of Google Sky, in principle an extension of Google Earth that could soon reach through the internet browser.