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# Multi-Wavelength, Multi-Platform, Multi-Device, Multi-Screen
Today, amateur astronomers are blessed with a
wealth wide variety of
so-called "planetarium" software
to choose from and some program runs tools, running on
nearly any device. Like much a variety of
devices, that show what the
other software available for free or Sky and/or Solar System will look like at
low cost to amateurs, any point in time, from any location. Like other such "planeterium" software, WorldWide Telescope
is offers an astrometrically correct 3D model of the Universe populated by the highest resolution imagery from ground and space based telescopes. But, WWT's imagery is unique in its quality, and in its ability to show the sky at many (currently 85!) different wavelengths, most of which are beyond the spectral window of the human eye.
WWT features a seamless visible light view (based on imaging from the Digitized Sky Survey) of the night sky that is a _trillion_ pixels in size, allowing users to zoom from a 60-degree wide field view of the Milky Way to a close up view of features as tiny as the wisps of the Veil nebula. Users can also cross-fade between any two wavelengths, selected from images, many of which are all-sky, covering the full Radio to X-Ray spectrum.