WorldWide Telescope
NumFOCUS Sponsored Project since 2022Thanks to the flexibility of its underlying rendering engine, WWT is used in projects ranging from astrophysics research to education, public outreach, and simply sharing the wonder of the universe. For instance, the WWT web toolkit is used in the Chandra Source Catalog viewer of NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Center, the StarHunt student research project funded by the Nobel Prize Museum, and interactive educational applications created for NASA’s Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms program. The WWT Windows application has powered hundreds of planetariums, from small portable domes to world-class facilities like the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.
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Industry
Higher Education Research & Teaching, Government
Language
Python, TypeScript, C#
Features
Browser Interactivity, Visualization, Educational Outreach
WorldWide Telescope is an ecosystem of software, data sets, and services that combine to enable immersive, interactive astronomy data visualization. Building on a reusable rendering engine available in both TypeScript/JavaScript and C#, the WWT ecosystem includes a Windows application, an interactive web app with JupyterLab support, and a range of supporting tools.
Thanks to the flexibility of its underlying rendering engine, WWT is used in projects ranging from astrophysics research to education, public outreach, and simply sharing the wonder of the universe. For instance, the WWT web toolkit is used in the Chandra Source Catalog viewer of NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Center, the StarHunt student research project funded by the Nobel Prize Museum, and interactive educational applications created for NASA’s Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms program. The WWT Windows application has powered hundreds of planetariums, from small portable domes to world-class facilities like the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.
