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Microsoft's World Wide Telescope is a web connected desktop app that renders a tiled tour of high resolution, zoomable images of the entire night sky, woven together from a number of different telescopes and satellites. It leverages a "3D teraserver visualization engine." Robert Scoble's first interview at Fast Company TV is with Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay, who worked on the project.

We've embedded the demo video below because the product is likely to be one of historic proportions and we thought our readers would appreciate the opportunity to see it.