SIMULATOR | PLANETES | UNIVERSE
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openuniverse
Strictly spoken it's a piece of software, simulating the Solar System's bodies in 3D on your Windows or Linux PC (will work in most *NIX's as well). In difference to quite a few other programs it does so in realtime. Meaning you can view all the planets, moons and spaceships move along their paths, trace them, follow them, orbit them and even control them (time and spaceship contol).
Immerse yourself in a seamless beautiful environment. From web to desktop to full dome planetarium, WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables you to explore the universe, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world and combining it with 3D navigation. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky. You can research and import your own data and visualize it, then create a tour to share with others. A web-based version of WorldWide Telescope is also available. This version enables seamless, guided explorations of the universe from within a web browser on PC and Intel Mac OS X by using the power of Microsoft Silverlight 4.0.
WorldWide Telescope
WorldWide Telescope is a terrific fly-through of the solar system, the galaxy, and the universe, developed by Microsoft Research. You can control your location, your travel direction, your look direction, and your zoom by either an X-type joystick or by the keyboard. “WorldWide Telescope” comes preinstalled with all PC-based Discovery Dome packages (fisheye and mirror). Packed with features similar to Uniview software costing many thousands of dollars, you can explore the night sky, zoom into (and orbit around) planets and moons, zoom out to see the solar system from above (or below), plot the orbits of the asteroids and much much more!
E-Planetarium - WorldWide Telescope
Celestia: Home
Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across.
This is where Universe Sandbox succeeds brilliantly: players experience godly power to create or destroy, while almost unavoidably learning something about the physical properties of our universe. Using the vast range of variables and tools at your disposal you can create some enormously convoluted displays of physics, bending cosmic laws to your will... bit-gamer I’ve seen some pretty wonderful interactive programs that allow you and your family to explore the vast regions of the universe, but nothing nearly as enthralling as Universe Sandbox. I work in a planetarium in Dayton, Ohio...
Universe Sandbox
Image: Comet Hyakutake as seen in 1996. “It is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.” - Space Act of 1958 Until Voyager reached the outer solar system we knew very little about the planets that inhabited this region of space. What we have discovered over years of exploration has both excited and mystified us. Come explore the science of the outer planets. Learn what we have already discovered, and discover what we have yet to learn.
The Outer Planets
• Most advanced and up-to-date Celestial Calculations by Jean Meeus - also used by NASA • Music by Travis Fitzsimmons • Spanish version by Ignacio Díez • Portuguese version by Rodrigo Ottero (special language characters are not supported) • Russian version by Sergey Leonov
