This is a non-exhaustive list of nice external interactive visualisations and visualisation tools that are offered for free to anyone. If you want to have something added to this list, please send us an email.

Stellarium

  • Link
  • Free desktop application for Linux, Windows or Mac OS
  • Shows the current stellar sky, constellations, position of planets, etc.
  • Your "own" planetarium.

Exoplanet

  • Link
  • Free iPhone/iPad application from Hanno Rein
  • Fly through the Milky Way and visit planets around other stars.
  • Based on published scientific data, updates itself, thus it is always up-to-date with the known exoplanets!

100,000 stars

  • Link
  • Web application
  • Shows the closest 100,000 stars to the sun and their properties, based on scientific data.
  • Zoom in, fly around and explore the solar neighbourhood!

ESASky

  • Link
  • Web application
  • For browsing astronomical data of the sky, includes Hubble images and images from many other ESA missions.

Gaia Sandbox

  • Link
  • Free desktop application for Linux, Windows or Mac OS
  • Fly throught the solar system, the solar neighbourhood and through the Milky Way. Also allows to load own data sets. With 3D support.

Visualise your own data

For example data downloaded from the Virtual Observatory or other public databases.

Glue

Filtergraph

Topcat

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  • Virtual Observatory (VO) tool for finding, displaying VO-tables and visualising their data

Aladin

  • Link
  • Virtual Observatory (VO) tool for finding and displaying astronomical images (fits-format)