There are many cool tools out there to explorer space right from your Windows Computer, for example Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope, but there are also many space simulator that provide additional information
Explorer The Observable Universe Using This Space Sim
Using this Space Sim you can explorer stars, nebulae, entire galaxies and whatever you want to explore in space. It provides a lot of detailed information like type of Star/object, distance, diameter, mass, mag, luminosity, temperature, size and close-by planets
Simply select an object you want to explorer
Use the buttons at the bottom to go there
Use the arrow keys and the “free mode” to explore – The free mode can be activated by clicking the icon left to the rocket icon at the bottom (world with cursor)
Download Space Sim
You can download this program for free over at http://en.spaceengine.org/ or download it from our Mirror. This program is approx. 500MB large, so the download may take a while
