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Acknowledgments
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
  -Isaac Newton in a letter to Robert Hooke in 1675 or 1676.
 
Jim Gray
WWT is dedicated to the vision and efforts of Jim Gray who inspired us to bring the stars within the reach of everyone.

Jim Gray's Research site
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci) (DSS data set)
  • Frank Summers
  • Brian McLean
http://www.stsci.edu/resources
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/
Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) at Caltech (2MASS and IRAS data sets)
http://www.caltech.edu/
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Robert Hurt
  • John Good
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • Alyssa Goodman
  • August (Gus) Muench
  • Doug Finkbeiner
  • Roy Gould
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html
NASA SkyView
Tom McGlynn
http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/
U.S. Naval Observatory
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/index.php
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotrophy Probe (WMAP)
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
http://www.usgs.gov
Microsoft Virtual Earth
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth
Douglas Finkbeiner at Princeton University
For compositing the Virginia Tech Spectral line Survey (VTSS) in the northern hemisphere, the Southern H-Alpha Sky Survey Atlas (SHASSA) in the southern hemisphere, Hydrogen alpha (HA) filters, and the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) survey (H-A data set) http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~dfink/halpha/
University of Wisconsin
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/wham/
Copenhagen University Observatory (CUO) and the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO)
http://www.nbi.ku.dk
Astronomy Common Object Model (ASCOM)
http://ascom-standards.org/index.html
International Virtual Observatory Alliance’s (IVOA))
http://www.ivoa.net/
VAMP project (classification)
http://virtualastronomy.org/
Johns Hopkins University
Alex Szalay
http://www.jhu.edu
National Virtual Observatory(NVO)
http://chart.stsci.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
Meade 4M Community
http://www.meade4m.com
Image Credits for WorldWide Telescope Solar System Mode
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