After long waiting since the talk by Roy Gould and Curtis Wong in Feb 2008, Microsoft WorldWide Telescope is finally available for download.
This is a really great art of masterpiece. It features the photos taken by ground-based observatories and space telescopes. There’re terrabytes of images at research grade resolution. I am not sure how to do research with it but it’s totally full of marvelous sceneries. Beware, your harddisk might be filled up with all these images. 
It also allows you to point your telescope to the target you currently focus on by installing the ASCOM component. This software certainly comes in handy when we do public outreach.
Explore it yourself!
Microsoft WorldWide Telescope
PS: I’m going to do a review of this stunning virtual telescope soon.
Join NASA’s return to the Moon by sending yourself to the Moon!
Alright, it’s just your name. Just sumbit your name to the website below, you’ll be given a certificate to show your support of the mission. The names will be collected and placed onboard the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) spacecraft.
LRO’s objectives are to find safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology. This will be a historic mission.
The deadline of submission of names is 28 June 2008.
http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/
From 3 May to 7 May, we’re gifted one of the year best meteor shower – Eta Aquarid meteor shower. Aquarids are the debris left by Halley’s Comet of which last closest approach was in 1986. For this year, the moon is new and the Aquarids stay at full strength over the 5 days. This time, Aquarids favor us and the southern region. Expect a spectacular meteor shower! 
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