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Slashdot has all the information about this. This is most follow up to the Google Sky product MSFT was working on. There is a pretty good video demonstration, so please visit slashdot to get the link and discussion items.

Update : I just noticed Ogle Earth has a great review of the whole thing. Please visit their page for a highly detailed overview.
Update : The Google Earth Blog has also done an extensive review of this. Check out their page for more information.

Here is their summary : "Ted.com has a great sneak peek at Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope project. In this video, presented by Roy Gould and Curtis Wong, you are able to see a combined view of satellites and telescopes from all over the planet and nearby space. The compiled image is rendered using Microsoft's new high-performance "Visual Experience Engine" that allows users to pan and zoom across the night sky seamlessly."

As the Digital Earth Blog and Ogle Earth blog is reporting this morning, a beta version of WorldWide telescope has been released. You can grab the download directly from the MicroSoft site http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/. For more information and preliminary reviews, please visit the blog links above.

One of my colleagues sent notice of a new Google Earth competitor. Here is a snippet from the article : "Kolkata: Adding a feather to its cap, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch its own satellite imagery on the Internet six months from now, rivalling popular mapping service Google Earth. "

To read the full article, please visit the link above.
Update: All Points Blog is running the same story, so head on over there as well to see the community feedback.

SlashDot is currently discussing this new nasa mosaic. Here is their summary : "Today NASA unveiled a new infrared mosaic of our galaxy. The result of over 800,000 individual images collected by the Spitzer Space Telescope, it is the largest, highest-resolution, and most sensitive infrared picture ever taken of the Milky Way (and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future). Because Spitzer sees in infrared, it penetrates much farther into the galaxy, revealing previously hidden star clusters, star-forming regions, shocked gases, glowing 'bubbles' and more. The complete mosaic is about 400,000 by 13,000 pixels, and a 180' printed version is being shown at the American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis. A zoomable, annotated version of two different variants on the image (as well as some additional information on the science) is available at Alien Earths, a NASA- and NSF-supported education site."

To be a part of the discussion, head on over to the SlashDot article. To make things easier for you GIS professionals, here are the images in reference to the mosaic :
Single Images, not mosaiced : http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2008-11/ssc2008-11b.shtml
Interactive Mosaic : http://www.alienearths.org/glimpse/glimpse.php