Celestia

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Celestia is a real-time 3D astronomy software program that was created in 2001 by Chris Laurel. The program allows users to virtually travel through the universe and explore celestial objects that have been catalogued. Celestia also doubles as a planetarium, but the user is not restricted to the Earth's surface, like in other planetarium software such as Stellarium. Celestia can display objects of various scales using OpenGL. Celestia is available for AmigaOS 4, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Xbox, iOS, VisionOS, and Android. Celestia is also available on FreeBSD as both a binary package and a port. It is free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License. Celestia's development stopped in 2013, with the final release in 2011. Since then, some of its development team went to work on celestia.Sci, a cosmological visualizer featuring more realistic rendering of galaxies and planets, gravitational lensing, and many other scientifically accurate enhancements, but...

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