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Key facts
- Original author
- Fabien Chéreau
- Developers
- Alexander Wolf, Georg Zotti, Marcos Cardinot, Guillaume Chéreau, Bogdan Marinov, Timothy Reaves, Florian Schaukowitsch
- Stable release
- 25.4 / December 29, 2025 , (5 months ago) ( 2025-12-29 )
- Written in
- C++ ( Qt )
- Operating system
- Linux , Windows , macOS
- Platform
- PC , Mobile
- Size
- 345 MB ( Linux tarball ), 261 MB ( Windows 32-bit installer), 398 MB (Windows 64-bit installer), 243 MB ( macOS package)
- Type
- Educational software
- License
- GNU GPLv2
- Website
- stellarium .org
- Repository
- github .com /Stellarium /stellarium
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Stellarium is a free and open-source planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version, available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. A port of Stellarium called Stellarium Mobile is available for Android and iOS. These have a limited functionality, lacking some features of the desktop version. All versions use OpenGL to render a realistic projection of the night sky in real time.
Stellarium was featured on SourceForge in May 2006 as Project of the Month.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q119931” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.