Technology has made distances shrink to the size of your screen. Applications such as Celestia can bring all the greatness of the outer Space, with all its details, right to your computer. Software offers detailed information on all the asteroids, planets and others, as well as a tool for saving screenshots and videos with inter-planetary and inter-galaxy trips.

Additionally to all this information, the active community around this application offers tons of add-ons with data. In other words, Celestia is a perfect tool for learning about the Space and for living first hand all the steps of the Space conquest: satellite orbits, spatial launches, everything.
Graphics are simply excellent and impressive, and it has an even greater potential due to its compatibility with scripts and extras. Application even includes scenes and scenarios from the movies Star Trek or Star Wars.

Without any additional installation, Celestia includes content from Hubble and a tool for visiting all the planets and bodies of the Solar System. It can be easily integrated with educational and professional software. And all this in an open source environment and with a community solely focused on adding more interesting content. Even the NASA is an active player in this community.

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