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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Space Engine AlternativesTop Star Maps and other similar apps like Space Engine
One of the most popular alternatives to Space Engine is Stellarium, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Celestia, No Man's Sky, Gaia Sky and Noctua Stellarium. You're spoiled for choice with Star Maps like Space Engine: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Android, Linux, Mac and iPhone.
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- 60 Stellarium alternatives
32 Celestia alternativesCelestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects.
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23 No Man's Sky alternativesNo Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival video game developed and published by the indie studio Hello Games.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Windows
- Steam
- GOG.com
- Playstation
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox
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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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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Online
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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
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
- GOG.com
- Epic Games Store
- itch.io
- Humble Bundle
- HTC Vive
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51 Solar System Scope alternatives3D simulation of the Solar System and night sky - real time virtual orrery and observatory
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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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
- Linux
- Wine
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13 Orbiter alternativesOrbiter is a realistic 3D real-time space flight simulator program.
Fed up with space games that insult your intelligence and violate every law of physics? Orbiter is a simulator that gives you an idea what space flight really feels like - today and in the not so distant future.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows
I, Voyager's free, open-source software planetarium built on the free, open-source Godot Engine.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- Self-Hosted
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Welcome to the Atlas of Space — an interactive visualization to explore the planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in the Solar System.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
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- Online
13 Cosmonium alternativesCosmonium is a 3D astronomy and space exploration program. With Cosmonium you can navigate in our solar system and discover all the planets and their moons.
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