It's Google earth in space

[cookie_monster]

WorldWide Telescope

[SYNACK]

Nice find, glad they have finally released this. There is a video demo from the TED conference here:

TED | Talks | Roy Gould, Curtis Wong: WorldWide Telescope (video)

 

Google earth also has a similar but less impressive feature:

Google Earth has a Sky function. Select "Switch to Sky" in the View pull down menu and Earth will disappear and become a celestial globe.

[TechMonkey]

Yep went to have fun with this yesterday but there is a bug where it isn't always picking up the proxy settings from IE so I can only use offline mode, so no pretty pictures

[manxdan]

Carried off with Microsoft's usual panache I see

 

MS whips lens cap off WorldWide Telescope | The Register