I love this image of Jupiter, Europa and Io, which I found on Wiki's entry about the free software program called Celestia.
"Celestia is a 3D astronomy program created by Chris Laurel. The program is based on the Hipparcos Catalogue (HIP) and allows users to travel through an extensive universe, modeled after reality, at any speed, in any direction and at any time in history. Celestia displays and interacts with objects ranging in scale from small spacecraft to entire galaxies in three dimensions using OpenGL, from perspectives which would not be possible from a classic planetarium or other ground-based display."
This really does sound amazing but I fear will be too complex for me to download on my little laptop. Has anyone tried Celestia?
If you like that then you'll like this.
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