Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
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Celestia AlternativesStar Maps and other similar apps like Celestia
Apps similar to Celestia include Stellarium, which is free and open source. Other options are Space Engine, Noctua Stellarium, Solar System Scope and Gaia Sky. Star Maps like Celestia are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPad.
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Most Celestia alternatives are Star Maps, but you can also narrow the list to Adventure Games or Exploration Games. You can also filter for EU-based alternatives if you prefer software from the European Union.
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- 60 Stellarium alternatives
30 Space Engine alternativesSpace Engine - a real-time 3D space simulator, procedural universe generator and visualiser. It lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, starting from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies.
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- Proprietary
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- Windows
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Android
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- Android Tablet
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- Online
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51 Solar System Scope alternatives3D simulation of the Solar System and night sky - real time virtual orrery and observatory
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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46 Gaia Sky alternatives3D visualization software for ESA's (European Space Agency) Gaia mission to chart about 1 billion stars of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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The Starry Night apps are the most comprehensive educational astronomy apps. Use it with your introductory astronomy textbook or on its own. It's a powerful, portable planetarium that fits in your backpack. It puts thousands of stars and planets at your fingertips.
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- Mac
- Windows
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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15 Universe Sandbox alternativesCreate & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
- GOG.com
- Epic Games Store
- itch.io
- Humble Bundle
- HTC Vive
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18 WorldWide Telescope alternativesThe 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.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
- Online
- United States
I, Voyager's free, open-source software planetarium built on the free, open-source Godot Engine.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
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- Windows
- Online
- Self-Hosted
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19 Systems Tool Kit alternativesSystems Tool Kit (STK) is a platform for analyzing and visualizing complex systems in the context of your mission. Interact with data from platforms across the aerospace, defense, telecommunications, and other industries.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Windows
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
WinStars uses the latest 3D technology to show the objects of our solar system in a realistic manner. Thus, it is possible to move from one planet to another, to follow a space probe on its long voyage or to observe a celestial event from a place to which you could never go.
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- Windows
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