Comets

Control your ship and try and collect as many stars as possible while avoiding the comets. Each time you collect a star another comet will be added to the play area. Pick up the power orb to activate a random feature. Some may help you others will make your task harder. Avoid the homing bomb and...

Halley is a handy application that allows you to access and get various informations about comets. Works with the comets database, containing Keplerian orbital elements, non-gravitational and physical parameters of the comet, and other data. The database is updated in case the new data become...

Comet Smasher is a free shooting game where you need to blast apart some comets. Your space ship entered a thick belt of comets in the middle of the Universe. Your only way out is to blast them all. The comets are closing on you fast so your shooting has to be precise or else they will hit your...


Platforms: Windows

Particle Dancer is a fun particle simulator. You are initially presented a 2D grid of particles. As you drag your mouse across the screen, the particles start to speed toward your mouse... like comets toward a sun. Lots of fun! Particle Dancer is a fun particle simulator written in Python and...


Platforms: *nix

Happy Note! Notes in Space is a full-fledged arcade-type computer game that's both fun and educational. It will teach you about relative note durations (whole notes, half notes, quarter notes) even as you play and have fun. You'll be shooting at space faring notes from your very own spaceship....

MPj Astro is an easy to use planetarium type astronomy programme for Macintosh computers. It will display the positions of the stars, planets, comets, Sun and Moon for any location on earth from 2000 BC to the year 6000. Use MPj Astro to locate and identify objects in the sky, learn the...


Platforms: Mac

The TwinkleGL screen saver sends a shower of twinkling stars across the screen in a variety of attractive patterns. Configuration options are available that can be used to change the screen saver into a chaotic mass of colour, a trio of comets orbiting the middle of the screen, or bizarre...


Platforms: Windows

Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects. Welcome to Celestia ... The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, C/C++, BSD Solaris

A comprehensive astronomy / space / satellite-tracking package. It allows you to view: An earth map, showing day and night regions, location of the Moon and current phase, and position of a selected earth satellite. Panel showing positions of planets and a selected asteroid or comet, both...


Platforms: Windows

Solar System Simulator Educational is designed to simulate astronomical phenomena of the solar system. Based on accurate astronomical data, it reproduces the motions of the solar system (the sun, planets, satellites, comets, asteroids, etc.) three-dimensionally on your Mac. While traveling across...


Platforms: Mac

The Legend of Space Bug is a simple, totaly free arcade game for Mac OS X. The game is based on the original Space Bug released for Mac OS classic around New Year 2000. There are some new features and changes but the idea is still the same.In the game you control the space ship of Space Bug and...


Platforms: Mac

EQAlign born as a software that assists to align a German Equatorial Mount (GEM) exactly to the Earth polar axis. The used method is that of Julius Scheiner (1858-1913) german mathematic, physic, astronomer and pioneer in astrophotography. Today, in adition to polar align feature, EQAlign is...


Platforms: Windows

This program enables you to draw sky charts, making use of the data in 16 catalogs of stars and nebulae. In addition the position of planets, asteroids and comets are shown. The purpose of this program is to prepare different sky maps for a particular observation. A large number of parameters...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A complete and accessible astronomy experience is in store -- with real-time sky, comprehensive reports, arcsecond accuracy, and exciting features such as animation and live tracking. Adastra's powerful search encompasses planets, comets, asteroids, DSOs, and a multitude of stars, making...


Platforms: Windows

Music Notes In Space HN is a full-fledged arcade-type computer game that's both fun and educational. It will teach you about relative note durations (whole notes, half notes, quarter notes) even as you play and have fun. You'll be shooting at space faring notes from your very own spaceship.When...


Platforms: Windows

Night City is fast paced arcade game with some brilliant looking 3D graphics. The object of the game is to protect your city, by shooting down invading space ships, and comets that threaten to smash into your city. The game starts out easy, but gradually builds up into a very intense arcade...


Platforms: Windows

ORSA is an interactive tool for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations. Asteroids, comets, artificial satellites, Solar and extra-Solar planetary systems can be accurately reproduced, simulated, and analyzed.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

You have been stranded 100 light years from Earth, can you survive the long way home? After a catestrophic ship explosion, you must make your way home 1 light year at a time. Encounter exploding asteroids, teleporting dark matter, comets and more on your epic journey home. A Long Way Home is a...


Platforms: Mac

KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and 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....


Platforms: *nix, C/C++, BSD

Skipping StoneA richly featured application to design trajectories for interplanetary space missions using (multiple) gravity-assist maneuvers. Its most prominent capabilities are:- single/multi objective optimization- can work with a multitude of (heuristic) optimization algorithms- Low/high...


Platforms: Matlab