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Celestia
Celestia Europe Io Jupiter.jpg
Europa, Io, and Jupiter in Celestia.
Original author(s) Chris Laurel
Developer(s) Chris Laurel, Celestia Development Team
Initial release 26 February 2001; 23 years ago (2001-02-26)
Stable release
1.6.1 / 10 June 2011; 12 years ago (2011-06-10)
Preview release
1.6.2-beta2 / 20 February 2020; 4 years ago (2020-02-20)
Written in C++
Operating system AmigaOS 4, BSD, Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows
Size Linux: 27.7 MB
AmigaOS 4: 44.4 MB
macOS: 38.7 MB
Windows: 32.8 MB
Source code: 52.6 MB
Available in 28 languages
Type Educational software
License GNU General Public License

Celestia is a free 3D astronomy program for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It was created by Chris Laurel and is licensed under the GPL.

The program is based on the Hipparcos Catalogue (120,000 Stars) and allows users to display objects from artificial satellites to entire galaxies in three dimensions in OpenGL. Different from other planetarium software, the user is free to travel in the universe.

NASA and ESA have used Celestia, but it is not to be confused with Celestia 2000, ESA's own program.

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Images for kids

  • Celestia DSOs

    Typical DSO survey in Celestia

  • TrES-4 b

    Celestia's rendition of TrES-4b

  • Celestia mars

    A high-resolution texture of the planet Mars

  • Celestia moon

    A high-resolution texture of the Moon, including a normal map

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Celestia para niños

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