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

The American Astronomical Society

National Science Foundation

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

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

Bing Maps

http://www.bing.com/maps/

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/

Virginia Tech

http://www.phys.vt.edu/~halpha

http://amundsen.swarthmore.edu/SHASSA/

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/

International Virtual Observatory Alliance’s (IVOA))

http://www.ivoa.net/

VAMP project (classification)

http://virtualastronomy.org/

ESA/NASA Hubble

http://www.spacetelescope.org/

Johns Hopkins University

Alex Szalay
http://www.jhu.edu

National Virtual Observatory(NVO)

http://voservices.net/Registry/index.aspx

Mark Crossley - Wilmslow Astro for proccessing of Hevelius artwork

Sky and Telescope

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/organizations

Image Credits for WorldWide Telescope Solar System Mode

Milky Way Galaxy Model — Dr. Robert Hurt, Spitzer Science Center, CalTech
Hiparcos Catalogs — European Space Agency
Planetary Images — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Cosmos Mode —

Sloane Digital Sky Survey
Miguel Angel Aragon Calvo, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
Mark SubbaRao, Adler Planetarium, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago