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Celestia
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CelestiaProject / Celestia

Celestia

Real-time 3D visualization of space.

7Distinct people
9Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.4KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Real-time 3D visualization of space.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-05-20 05:42:40 UTC to 2026-09-30 04:17:11 UTC.

01232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 3 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC330
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> and the download page looks like this: https://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/ The page that states "Please do not download Celestia from this repository. This repository has been abandoned, and the new source and website are here and here, respectively." for the past four years ? Try: https://celestiaproject.space/download.html and https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia for version 1.6.4 Both Celestia and Stellarium have "open data" file formats that come "standard" with downloads and "extra" from community forums - ie all manner of real and SciFi movie/novel objects can be added with name, bitmaps, orbits, etc.
In Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
That's rude. Yes, I've contributed to a few. However, here is a list of open-source software that've notoriously turned to unethical decisions when pressured into getting funding. Audacity: Free until 2021 when they were bought and introduced telemetry. Streamlabs: Open-source but tried to monetise and attack the OBS brand Bitwarden forks: Various forks of open-source code that included monetisation OpenOffice: Great desktop apps until bought by Oracle CCleaner: "free" software that contained trojens. HoverZoom: Chrome plugin sold by original dev, new update included spyware and ads. As I said, I don't mind if the answer is "we are volunteers who love this", but I do ask that formal webpage presenting a product, that even has an FAQ page, explains it's funding model. Their github (https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia) is much bette
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