Connect(); 2016 - Stories WorldWide Telescope

our entire existence has been
characterized by looking for the next
thing for some reason we really need to
know we need to know what's beyond the
edge of the visible solar system the
world wide telescope is a software tool
that is a personal portal to our solar
system into the universe beyond what
evidence do we have for the existence of
Planet nine the most obvious is the
confinement of distant orbits within the
Kuiper belt when I first got the plots
for Mike and Konstantin showings how
some of these outer solar system objects
are all in these skewed orbits I was
able to draw out all the locations of
the objects and in worldwide telescope
that automatically put them in a 3d
context it so turns out that they'll
point in the same direction they lie in
the same plane there really is no other
way to account for them except for
through the gravitational pull of Planet
nine everything that we know about the
universe and modern astronomy is
filtered to code there are sensors all
of the world's all sups looking up
there's spacecraft orbiting different
planetary bodies and they're sending
data back to the earth where white salsa
was built with net they have sets are
sent into the cloud and Azure the
metadata behind is managed by a sequel
server it's made accessible to everybody
on any browser through WebGL developers
have the chance to bring the universe to
all the devices we use in our life to
find new ways new pieces the universe to
express to us through the software with
planet 9 the amount of additional
information that we will learn will be
staggering this will reveal our birth
story to us collaborations between
companies like Microsoft and
institutions like Caltech are
exceedingly important worldwide
telescope and how we've used it is just
one example planet 9 is the planet of
our generation the next generation will
find out what is beyond
that frontier welcome to connect