Nasa Astronomy

The PARSEC CEE is the primary achievement of several years of effort at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The CEE was developed to allow engineers in the Advanced Concepts Department to rapidly prototype launch vehicle and spacecraft concepts.

Read single-band NASA PDS (Planetary Data System) Image files in Python. Query header information and extract binary image data in a format suitable for PIL (Python Imaging Library). Works for Pathfinder and Mars Exploration Rover images, maybe others.

A PHP module to help perform advanced astronomical computations, such as planetary positions like those published in the astronomical almanacs.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

PLEXIL is a plan execution language developed and applied in automation applications at NASA. This software includes an executive (runtime environment) and many related tools. It runs on Unix-based computers.


Platforms: *nix

About AutoAPOD A great new system extension that allows your Mac OS X computer to instantly download a great Astronomy picture daily. Explore the beauty of the cosmos from the comfort of your own home or office. What is AutoAPOD? APOD stands for Astronomy Picture Of the Day. It is a web site...


Platforms: Mac

About To the Moon Iconfactory artist, Anthony Piraino has translated the landmark spacecraft from NASA s Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs into masterful icons for your computer s desktop. Then, to make your desktop makeover complete, race over to www.mandolux.com and download a set of...


Platforms: Mac

This model uses Simulink and the Aerospace Blockset for modeling the airframe of a NASA HL-20 lifting body, which is a low-cost complement to the Space Shuttle orbiter. The Aerospace Blockset was used to rapidly assemble portions of the HL-20 airframe. The remaining portions, including the...


Platforms: Matlab

The Ejs Celestial Globe model simulates the Two Sphere Universe theory of the Ancient Greeks. This theory supposes the stars to be fixed on the surface of a Celestial Sphere, with the spherical Earth at the center of this sphere. The simulation shows the motion of Sun and stars in this model, as...


Platforms: Mac

The EJS Earth Orbit model illustrates the Copernican theory of Earth's orbit around the sun. The top window shows a view from outside the celestial sphere. The simulation shows the moving Earth along with its axis or rotation and the line of sight from Earth, through Sun, to the Celestial Sphere....


Platforms: Mac

Astronomy is the science of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere, such as stars, planets, comets, auroras, galaxies, and the cosmic background radiation. It is concerned with the formation and development of the universe, the evolution and physical and...


Platforms: Mac

The Astronomical Parallax 2D Model illustrates the phenomenon of parallax in astronomy. Parallax is the apparent displacement of an object relative to the background that is caused by the motion of the observer (rather than the motion of the object itself, or of the background). This simulation...


Platforms: Mac

No longer actively maintained - take over maintenance! A graphical tool for the simulation of the solar system, based on gravity power calculations. Focus lies on a nice OpenGL graphic and user friendly modification possibilities. Subject Astronomy


Platforms: *nix

pFUnit is a Fortran testing framework created by developers from NASA and NGC TASC. pFUnit offers a convenient, lightweight mechanism for Fortran developers to create and run software tests that specify the desired behavior for a given piece of code.


Platforms: *nix

Everybody who loves to watch the starry shiny sky will definitely enjoy the opportunity to fly around the entire solar system. Planetarium 3D Screensaver gives an exciting opportunity to admire 8 planets of our solar system and the moon, surrounded by millions of shining stars and the milky way!...


Platforms: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows

Cosmic pool is a new take on traditional pool where the balls are suspended in space inside of a zero-gravity cube. The object is to knock the balls out of the cube through hoops in the cube's sides using your cue ball, much like in ordinary pool. Cosmic pool has numerous features, such as...


Platforms: Windows

Planet’s Visibility presents a 3-color graph that shows when a planet, the moon or the sun is visible during any year from 3000 BC to AD 6000 at any location on the earth. The vertical axis marks the months of the year, the horizontal axis marks the hours of the day. The three colors create a...


Platforms: Windows

Math, financials, stats, combinative, dates, y=f(x), series, units and calendars conversions, geometry, pi, Fourier, Taylor, Gamma, Bessel, Bernoulli, Fisher, prime numbers, fractionations, equations, electricity, chemistry, molar masses, currencies. Divx Bitrate Calculator. Advanced astronomy...


Platforms: Windows

Robot4 (tm) is a Robotic Arm Movement program where the arm is moved from a given position to a desired position. The program finds the angles necessary for the desired position. Problem came from NASA. Robot4 is an Inverse Problem example. It wants to solve how to move from starting point...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server

Chronos Atomic Clock Synchronizer is a utility for people who need their computers to use exact time. The program connects to various atomic clock timeservers and synchronizes your internal clock with time provided by these servers. Key benefits: Connects on many atomic clock time servers;...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7

In cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy which permeates all of space and has strong negative pressure. According to the theory of relativity, the effect of such a negative pressure is qualitatively similar to a force acting in opposition to gravity at large scales. Invoking...


Platforms: Windows