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Celestia is a real-time 3D astronomy software program that was created in 2001 by Chris Laurel. The program allows users to virtually travel through the universe and explore celestial objects that have been catalogued. Celestia also doubles as a planetarium, but the user is not restricted to the Earth's surface, like in other planetarium software such as Stellarium. Celestia can display objects of various scales using OpenGL.

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Software.name: Celestia
Software.logo: Celestia.png
Software.screenshot: Jupiter, Io, and Europa.png
Software.caption: Europa, Io, and Jupiter in Celestia
Software.author: Chris Laurel
Software.developer: Celestia Development Team
Software.latest release version: 1.6.4
Software.programming language: C++
Software.operating system: AmigaOS 4, BSD, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android, FreeBSD
Software.size: Linux: 27.7 MBAmigaOS 4: 44.4 MBmacOS: 38.7 MBWindows: 32.8 MBFreeBSD: 65.7 MBSource code: 52.6 MB
Software.language count: 31
Software.genre: Educational software
Software.license: GPLv2

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Celestia is available for AmigaOS 4, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Xbox, iOS, VisionOS, and Android. Celestia is also available on FreeBSD as both a binary package and a port. It is free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License.