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Celestia

Open Source by Chris Laurel | Link to website

Celestia is a free real-time 3D space simulation, allowing unrestricted access to hundreds of thousands of stars. 3rd-Party content is also available to expand the virtual universe. More info »

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  2. Thumbnail for Screenshot: The orbits of a number of main belt asteroids (in brown) plotted together with major planet orbits (in blue).
  3. Thumbnail for Screenshot: The 1989 flyby of Neptune by Voyager 2--last stop before leaving the solar system.
  4. Thumbnail for Screenshot: A closeup of the space shuttle Discovery in orbit over Florida; this shot demonstrates Celestia's virtual texture feature for extremely high resolution mapping of planets.

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simulation, space, stars, astronomy, star-map +1 more, planetarium

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Are you the developer or publisher of Celestia and want to promote it on your webpage or blog then you are welcome to use one of the widgets listed below. The widget displays the total amount of "likes" that your application has on AlternativeTo at the moment. It also has a direct link to the application page on AlternativeTo so your users can go there to help you promote Celestia by liking it and posting comments.

Just copy the code right next to the widget you want to use and paste in on your website or blog. If you have any questions or suggestions on how to improve the widgets just send us an e-mail at hello@alternativeto.net .




Are you a developer?

You haven't missed that we got an API? If you want to get some info about Celestia (and its alternatives) in JSON format you can make a request to the following URL.

http://api.alternativeto.net/software/celestia/?count=5

You can easily build your own widget for Celestia or any other application on AlternativeTo. We also have some other URLs to get recently added items, information about a specific user and more. We are happy to provide you with more APIs if you tell us what you want to build and what information you need. As always you reach us at hello@alternativeto.net . Read more about our API here.