Education

KStars

There are several programs that display the wealth of images and data accumulated by satellites and telescopes during the past 10-20 years:

• Xplanet. a program that shows the earth as viewed from outer space
• Celestia, a 3-D tour of the cosmos.
• Kstars. a desktop planetarium.

Kstars, a desktop planetarium

KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, on any date and at any time. The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects, all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.

Other information:

• Hubble Space Telescope and Gallery
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• NASA
• The Nine Planets
• Northern Lights
• SkyView
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Welcome to the Planets