Posted 19:04 by Grote 0 comments

It's like Google Earth(tm)

Except it's on a galactic scale. Literally. I found this while browsing Fark today. Introducing Celestia! It's a neat program that like Google Earth, except on a galactic scale. You can go to anywhere in the solar system or anywhere else in the galaxy. It works for all the major OS's including Linux. You can download it here and see some of the neat screen shots here.

One of the more neat features it maps everything in "real time". It take your current time and then the program will face and tilt the planets in our solar system in their correct position in relation to our sun.

It's a little buggy but for a free download it's worth it, especially for a gigantic space nerd like me .