Google Earth

Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean.

Free Personal Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet BSD iPad

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

KStars

KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux KDE

StarCalc

StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC is available).

Free Windows Windows Mobile

WinStars

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

Freemium Windows Linux Wine

Planetarium

A browser-based virtual planetarium of stars and planets customizable by location (latitude and longitude) and time of day.

Free Web

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

Solar System Scope

3D simulation of the Solar System and night sky - real time virtual orrery and observatory Features: - Heliocentric view with real-time positions of planets and...

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Web

Aladin

Aladin is an interactive sky atlas allowing the user to visualize digitized astronomical images or full surveys.

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

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