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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 13 > Explore the virtual universe, in vivid 3-D

Explore the virtual universe, in vivid 3-D

Microsoft project catches up with Google in the Internet version of the space race

By Steve Lohr / The Bulletin
May 13, 2008

The skies may be the next frontier in travel, yet not even the wealthiest space tourist can zoom out to, say, the Crab Nebula, the Trapezium Cluster or Eta Carinae, a star 100 times more massive than the Sun and 7,500 light-years away.

But those galactic destinations and thousands of others can....

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