Educational

Xplanet

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

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