Space Engine Reviews and Details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

  SpaceEngine is also known for putting quite some effort into this; highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4TjdVAbXks https://spaceengine.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Show HN: The Atlas of Space

  I think https://spaceengine.org/ fills part of your request. I haven't played it but I've watched videos about it and it looks like you can jump anywhere around the observable universe and look at any object you want. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• ESASky

  Https://spaceengine.org/ , though it’s partially fictional if I recall correctly. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• I'm trying to make a basic political borders map of a galaxy that's not the milky way

  I mean, there are plenty of good deep sky images out there. Try looking at the New General Catalogue (NGC) objects for something that strikes your fancy. Alternatively, you could cruise around in Space Engine and bookmark an interesting galaxy to get screenshots from multiple angles, which is what I usually do. (SE is available on Steam for a reasonable price.). Source: about 3 years ago

• Asteroid's Near Miss of Earth Undetected for 2 Days

  Computer says yes: https://gravitysimulator.org/ https://spaceengine.org/ Once the mass, velocity, heading of an object is known it becomes easier to track and fine tune parameters meaning time of intersect with earth can be calculated which gives orientation of planet and entry attitude. An exact street addres | sub metre grid reference is a big ask, but the "line of breakup" arcing across a narrow slice of the... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation

  Space Engine[1] is another popular one [1] https://spaceengine.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Galaxy/Universe Creator/Generator

  This is a bit of a tall order. There are none that I know of; most folks I know who do galaxy maps either make them by hand with their digital paint tools of choice, or utilize the procedurally-generated ones from Space Engine. Up until recently SE had a free (old) version available on the site; you should still be able to find a mirror of it somewhere but I don't know of one personally. Otherwise, SE is available... Source: about 3 years ago

• The true overlords

  Numbers as overwhelming as these are meaningless to our little minds. Then, do yourself a favor. Download Space Engine and see for yourself what it's like to visually behold the mindblowing immensity we are talking about. Now, take into account Multiverses, and consider the possibility that all those Universes may be fractal-like with n-infinite dimensions. Contemplate that we probably know absolutely nothing... Source: over 3 years ago

• NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer

  You should check out https://spaceengine.org then. Source: over 3 years ago

• Looking for Planetarium Software

  In general, I'm looking for free, commercial use planetarium software that is not bounded to Earth. Stellarium, for example is completely bounded to Earth and you cannot travel through the solar system, our galaxy, or anywhere else in the mapped universe. I would like to find something that has that capability. The only thing I have found that fits this description is SpaceEngine, and while I already have the full... Source: over 3 years ago

• 3D spatial coordinates of objects in the known universe

  Space Engine primarily uses the Hipparcos catalog, that's where I would start. Source: over 3 years ago

• Question about air pressure

  I tested this using SpaceEngine, which simulates a globe, and I could see a 300ft tall object from 20 miles away. Long range observations do not prove that it's flat. You can perform this for yourself, download at https://spaceengine.org. Source: over 3 years ago

• This game uses real satellite images of the Earth, nice curvature, right?

  SpaceEngine is better for this type of stuff, if you're planning on using it for disproving flerfs. Source: over 3 years ago

• Told Bing to create image of how the dawn would look like on Pluto and it had been amazing

  I'm fond of Space Engine, a simulator that tries to generate realistic views from anywhere in the universe you might want to put a camera. The screenshots I generate from there actually make great fodder for Stable Diffusion's img2img process. Makes for a nice blend of realism and artistry. Source: over 3 years ago

• A three dimensional map of the 80 closest stars around our sun. [OC]

  It's on steam, if you have steam https://spaceengine.org/. Source: over 3 years ago

• Samsung’s moon shots using the company’s ‘Space Zoom’ technology are fake as they use an AI model to add extra details

  Good way to settle this is to open Space Engine, https://spaceengine.org/ Take a procedurally generated moon, and blur it down. Then take a picture of the screen at the appropriate distance and zoom. Does it re-create our moon where the alien moon should be? Does it enhance craters, but in the same places as the craters on the screen? Or will it do nothing if it doesn't recognize Earth's moon? Source: over 3 years ago

• What could serve as a dating system on a tidally locked world's native civilization?

  If you'd like to get a good feel for what the sky on a tide-locked planet might really be like, I recommend Space Engine. It does a good job of showing the scale of the cosmos, you might be surprised at how the tiny solar systems around red dwarfs look from planetary surfaces inside them. The other planets pass so close by that you can see their discs and phases as if they were moons. There would definitely not be... Source: over 3 years ago

• are there any websites or programs, or anything else, that i can zoom through the universe and...

  Sounds like you're looking for Space Engine. It's a simulation of the entire known universe with and a few fictional things thrown in. Source: over 3 years ago

• cant find a link for space engine

  I cant find a good working link for Space engine. If you have a working link please drop it for me. Source: over 3 years ago

• what does my IT department need to allow me to run EPIC and ED at work? (Its for the kids)

  If it is for educational purposes you can have a look at https://spaceengine.org/. Its more realistic and allows you to travel around the milky way. Source: over 3 years ago

• Mineral Crescent Moon

  I know right? OP stated it’s actually from Space Engine, an interactive 3D planetarium and astronomy software. Source: over 3 years ago