The official teaser site for Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope project is live. This is the technology that made former Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble cry a few weeks ago.

The kids in the short video "The Magic of WorldWide Telescope," available for viewing on the project site, seem fascinated. But the video's director could have been holding out a fifty dollar bill and gotten that reaction. (Come to think of it, though, I have that reaction to a fifty dollar bill.) The scientists, artists and others quoted in the other video, though, seem genuinely impressed with WorldWide Telescope.

I'll confess that what they're describing is pretty cool, and that I'm looking forward to trying it out myself. Naturally, since it's in private alpha testing and I'm a tiny little blogger who makes fun of people who cry for a living, I'm not going to see it any sooner than most of us. So I'll have to wait to shed my own tears. Which I might, who knows?