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The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.

Choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country. Feel free at any time to pause the tour, explore on your own (with multiple information sources for objects at your fingertips), and rejoin the tour where you left off. Join Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman on a journey showing how dust in the Milky Way Galaxy condenses into stars and planets. Take a tour with University of Chicago Cosmologist Mike Gladders two billion years into the past to see a gravitational lens bending the light from galaxies allowing you to see billions more years into the past. Click here to go to site

EMAILWIRE.COM, May 08, 2008 ) Houston, TX – PharmaNewswire.com
( www.pharmanewswire.com ) launches with pharmaceutical and medical news and press releases. The pharmaceutical news site features breaking news on drugs, pharmaceutical research and press releases from pharmaceutical companies, organizations, individuals throughout the world. Pharmanewswire.Com currently receives XML news feeds from EmailWire.com.

India successfully test-fired Wednesday a nuclear-capable missile that can hit targets from Beijing to Baghdad, the Defense Ministry said.

It was the third test of the Agni III missile. The first attempt failed two years ago, but last year’s was a success. Wednesday’s repeat performance reaffirmed India’s place in “the select band of countries who have such surface-to-surface intermediate range ballistic missile capability as a deterrent,” said Indian air force Group Capt. R.K. Das, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry. Read more

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The Pentagon is setting up a global network of foreign-language news websites, including an Arabic site for Iraqis, and hiring local journalists to write current events stories and other content that promote U.S. interests and counter insurgent messages. The news sites are part of a Pentagon initiative to expand “Information Operations” on the Internet. Neither the initiative nor the Iraqi site, www.Mawtani.com, has been disclosed publicly. At first glance, Mawtani.com looks like a conventional news website. Only the “about” link at the bottom of the site takes readers to a page that discloses the Pentagon sponsorship.
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