community.linux.com — Astronomers at New York City's Hayden Planetarium and Rose Center for Earth and Space think space exploration should be easily accessible to anyone. To make that possible, they offer an interactive atlas of the universe that anyone can download for free.
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fomaNov 17, 2006
@fkr2:The post is completely accurate. Only the data sets are under the Digital Universe license, while the software to view those datasets (Partiview) is covered by the Illinois Open Source License (why did you cut that sentence out of your excerpt?). So this article is indeed about "mapping the universe with open source software."@stox:Thanks for letting me know about Xephem. The only such software I knew much about was Celestia (which is licensed under the GPL).
Closed AccountNov 17, 2006
Oh right - the software you use is open source, just not the bit with the universe in it. My mistake.Coming next week - Google Earth open sourced, just not the bit with the maps in it.
neoricenNov 17, 2006
It's not open source, inaccurate.
Closed AccountNov 17, 2006
this is a great Digg, thank you for adding.
protomanNov 17, 2006
I don't see why people keep putting anything with the words "open source" in the linux/unix section. Im pretty sure there are open source programs for Windows and OS X too.
masterdirkNov 17, 2006
Free, open-source, great looking, multi-platform space simlulator: Celestia!<a class="user" href="http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html">http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html</a>
fiver22Nov 18, 2006
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