The Best 12 Digital Universe Atlas Alternatives

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    Stellarium

    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. It is being used in planetarium projectors.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Celestia

    Celestia 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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • WinStars

    WinStars uses the latest 3D technology to show the objects of our solar system in a realistic manner.

    Freemium Windows Linux Wine

  • Universe Sandbox

    Universe Sandbox is an interactive space simulator for Windows based PCs. Unlike most astronomy software that just shows you what the sky looks like or where the planets are, Universe Sandbox is a powerful gravity simulator.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Steam

  • Gaia Sky

    3D visualization software for ESA's (European Space Agency) Gaia mission to chart about 1 billion stars of the Milky Way Galaxy.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Aciqra

    Aciqra (uh-SEE-kruh) is a free and open source virtual sky map and planetarium which tracks and displays astronomical bodies including planets, nebulae and stars to an...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Noctua Stellarium Mobile

    Stellarium Mobile is a fully-featured planetarium for your phone. It shows a realistic night sky map in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

    Commercial

  • Solar Model

    SourceForge presents the Solar Model project. Solar Model is an open source application. SourceForge provides the world's largest selection of Open Source Software....

    Free Windows

  • Mitaka

    Mitaka is software for visualizing the known Universe with up-to-date observational data and theoretical models. Mitaka users can seamlessly navigate through space, from...

    Free Windows