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Explore the Universe from your Desktop with Celestia

Posted by nemilar on · 3 comments
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While it may not let you go where no man has gone before, Celestia is an amazing desktop application that lets you go anywhere in the known Universe.You can view any object in the Solar System, travel to distant stars, and even leave the Galaxy, traveling faster than the speed of light, viewing high-res images of objects millions of miles away.

[My Sister who is a teacher in L.A. uses this program in her classroom and turned me on to it, very cool. - Scott]

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Comments (3)

tracyanne ·
I try it every now and again, but I don't really like it, I prefer Stellarium.
jacog ·
Different goals, I think. For an attractive earth-bound view of the stars, Stellarium is the best. Celestia lets you view hundreds of objects from anywhere in the galaxy.

For the true astronomer though, the best is Kstars.
tuxchick ·
KStars is great. I didn't know about Stellarium or Celestia- might as well try all of them!

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