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Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope project has just been integrated with Bing Maps via a new Bing Maps application. The WWT project connects users to all the major telescopes in the world and the images they’ve captured via a client application that either runs on the desktop or in the web browser using Silverlight technology. Now WWT can function as a map layer, also via Silverlight.
To use it, you can either click on a map’s location to see what stars would be overhead in that area or (and possibly even cooler than that), you can just look up when in Streetside mode, the Bing Maps view which shows real-world curbside photos of an area.
To launch the map app in order to begin exploring the universe from within Bing Maps, do the following (via the Bing Team blog post):