A while ago now, I shared with my readers my visit to Microsoft Research headquarters here in the Silicon Valley, where I witnessed the "unveiling" of a new application called "the worldwide telescope".
(please see, The WorldWide Telescope: An amazing app)
IMHO, this is simply the best exploration and education tool for astronomy (though you can explore our Earth quite impressively too) available.
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So, I was rather pleased to read on C/Net's News that this terrific program has been 'ported' for use via a Silverlight-enabled web browser (Internet Explorer). Download the "client" (a plug-in) and you can now browse the heavens anywhere, anytime.
Instead of Copy > Paste-ing, I'll just refer you to the C/Net article, for details.
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