The fine folks over at Microsoft Research have just opened up a way-too-cool new public beta for all of us astronomy geeks. It's called the WorldWide Telescope (or WWT for short).
Just WTF is WWT, you might ask? The answer to this question and many more can be found in the overview, but I've included a quick shot of the general description to get you started:
Long Zheng over at http://www.istartedsomething.com/ has already created a very nice tutorial that shows you how to do screen captures with WWT so you can create your own out-of-this-world desktop wallpapers.
Very cool stuff, I must say. Go download it now - you know you want to.
And no, Mac-boy, you can't play with it...
