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Gaia Sky

Name: Gaia Sky
Author: ARI/Zentrum für Astronomie Heidelberg

by ARI/Zentrum für Astronomie Heidelberg

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Rendering of Earth's surface, clouds and atmosphere

Explore the universe in 3D

Gaia Sky is a real-time, 3D, astronomy visualisation platform for desktop and VR that runs on Linux, Windows and macOS. It is developed in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to chart about 1 billion stars of our Galaxy in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH, Universität Heidelberg). Explore the Solar System, the Milky Way or even the most distant galaxies of the Universe.

Changes in version 3.6.2-3

27 days ago

(Built 26 days ago)

New features and bug fixes:

use a new instance of the preferences dialog each time it is open, so that all preferences are reinitialized correctly.
invert-x/-y button in gamepad GUI does not work/update correctly.
remove blank frame produced when activating a ray-marching effect for the first time.
never skip future closest body position computation.
enable ray-marching effects in cubemap and stereoscopic mode.
restore light glow effect in cubemap and stereoscopic modes.
fix regression on some graphics drivers where the app crashed compiling a shader.
fix SVT indirection shader cleared with wrong value.

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This app is developed in the open by an international community, and released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.
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Installed Size~358.8 MiB

Download Size210.78 MiB

Available Architecturesx86_64, aarch64

Installs24,448

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Explore the universe in 3D

Community built