


The orbital motion of planets, moons, and stars in multiple-star systems are accurately calculated and displayed. Realistic and physically-based generation of procedural objects (galaxies, star systems, planets) and their physical properties (mass, radius, temperature, atmospheric parameters, etc). Other features include realistic atmospheric scattering, eclipse shadows, animated auroras and comet tails, and physically-based light warping near black holes and neutron stars, with animated accretion disks and jets. For unmapped and procedural planets, the surface is generated procedurally using your computer’s GPU.

For many Solar System bodies, actual data from space probes is used, with huge, high-resolution texture packs available as free DLC. Volumetric 3D models of galaxies and nebulae with interstellar dust clouds, and 3D landscapes on planets and stars. Detailed interactive tutorials will familiarize you with the controls. Also, time travel is possible: you can accelerate, decelerate, or reverse the flow of time, and jump to a specified date. Moving through space is as easy as «click and go», as well as game-style free flight using the WASD keys or a gamepad. You are free to move around the universe - travel seamlessly between any object and any distance, from surface to orbit to interstellar and intergalactic space. Regions of space not yet cataloged feature procedurally generated objects: galaxies, stars, star clusters, nebulae, and planetary systems. Known celestial objects are represented using data from catalogs: galaxies (NGC/IC), stars (HIPPARCOS), star clusters, nebulae, and planets (Solar System and known extrasolar planets). And no one will even notice if our sun suddenly goes out tomorrow and another civilization will sink into oblivion, without leaving any heritage behind.Īll types of celestial objects are represented: galaxies, nebulae, stars and star clusters, planets and moons, comets and asteroids. No, we are not grains of sand, or even dust, we are nothing at all. And you begin to understand how our humanity, with all its petty problems and mouse wars, is insignificant in comparison with the magnitude and incomprehensibility of the Universe. But here, all this is felt in its own skin. What are hundreds of billions of galaxies and hundreds of billions of stars in each of them? - just dry numbers in an astronomy textbook. SpaceEngine the first thing that catches your eye is the real size of our universe.
