The SUPERSEDED worldwidetelescope.org “user” website

This repository contains an old version of the WWT user website powered by ASP.NET. It has been superseded by the static site in wwt-user-website.

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SUPERSEDED content follows

The user-facing portion of the AAS WorldWide Telescope (WWT) website — various mostly-static pages but not the web client or the API or the Communities component of the web app.

WWT is a free, open-source tool for showcasing astronomical data and knowledge. WWT is brought to you by the non-profit American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the .NET Foundation. Established in 1899 and based in Washington, DC, the AAS is the major organization of professional astronomers in North America.

Getting involved

We love it when people get involved in the WWT community! You can get started by participating in our user forum or by signing up for our low-traffic newsletter. If you would like to help make WWT better, our Contributor Hub aims to be your one-stop shop for information about how to contribute to the project, with the Contributors’ Guide being the first thing you should read. Here on GitHub we operate with a standard fork-and-pull model.

All participation in WWT communities is conditioned on your adherence to the WWT Code of Conduct, which basically says that you should not be a jerk.

URL structure

The files in this repository drive the following URL paths of the main WWT website. The ones labeled static contain static content that is simply served up by the server. The rest contain dynamic content generated by the ASP.NET MVC5 application on the fly.

• /About/
• /Content/ — static
• /Download/
• /favicon.ico — static
• /fonts/ — static
• /GetInvolved/
• /Home
• /images/ — note served by wwtwebstatic backend, not wwtuserstaging
• /Learn/
• /Scripts/ — static
• /Support/
• /Terms/
• /Upgrade/
• /Use/

Much of the dynamically-served content, however, could just as well be turned into static content at some point. But in the interests of continuity, we're sticking with the active content for the time being.

Acknowledgments

The AAS WorldWide Telescope system is a .NET Foundation project managed by the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Work on WWT has been supported by AAS, the US National Science Foundation (grants 1550701 and 1642446), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Microsoft.

Legalities

The WWT code is licensed under the MIT License. The copyright to the code is owned by the .NET Foundation.