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Highlights of Celestia Educational Activities

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Learn the unbelievable size of our universe with a journey from Earth to the far reaches of the galaxies … at hyperspeed.
Watch solar flares and prominences rise off the Sun and measure its rotation using sunspots.
Hover over each of the planets in our Solar System as they rotate below. See clouds drift by and shadows cast on mountains and craters as the Sun sets low.
Fly with Mariner 10 on its historic flyby of Mercury.
Watch as the new Mercury Messenger drops into Mercury orbit.
Visit the searing surface of Venus and view it in a panoramic 360° vista.
Take a spin down to Earth’s surface in your hyperdrive spacecraft. Skim over the oceans below the clouds. Soar back into space to see the lights come on in the cities of Earth.
Be present as Apollo 11 lands on the Moon in 1969, or fly with Sputnik in 1957.
Rendezvous with the ISS or the Hubble Space Telescope. Attempt a docking at the ISS Shuttle port.
Peer deep into the cosmos through the focus of the Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain.
View Earth’s Magnetic Field from space and see the Aurora shimmering.
Display an internal X-section of Earth and its tectonic layers.
View over a dozen Earth Science maps of Earth, including oceans, seas, meteor impact sites, world volcanoes and earthquakes.
Discover Mir passing over the Russian homeland with its cosmonaut crew onboard.
See the massive size of Hurricane Katrina as it makes landfall on New Orleans.
Hover over Mar’s Gusev crater and Meridiani Planum and drop down to visit Spirit and Opportunity.
Fly over to Olympus Mons and through Valles Marineris.
Be there in the year 2029 when the asteroid Apophis will approach Earth on a possible collision course.
Observe a spectacular lunar eclipse of our own Moon and a total solar eclipse on Earth.
Examine the erupting volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io. Fly through a spewing volcanic plume.
Hover far beyond Saturn, plunge through its rings, and count its 60 moons.
Witness Cassini arrive in Saturn space in 2004 and drop the Huygens probe into the atmosphere of Titan.
Take up station behind comet Halley in 1986 as its gaseous tail streams out near Earth.
Seek out Ceres, Eris, Makemake and Haumea, our Solar System’s four new “dwarf planets”
Follow Voyagers 1 and 2 as they head to distant stars beyond our solar system.
Witness the Deep Impact spacecraft crash onto the surface of comet Tempel1 in 2005.
Set your ship at faster-than-light speed and sail to Rigel Kentaurus A, 4.3 light years away.
View the red glow of sunlight on Gliese 581c, an earthlike world orbiting a small red dwarf star.
Travel in time to 3000 CE to witness giant mirrors melt the Martian polar ice caps and help to terraform Mars into a verdant world of water, plants and cities of the future.
Travel far into the future and attempt a docking with a colossal rotating Space Station orbiting Earth.
Journey to the edges of a massive rotating Black Hole as it spins near its stellar companion. Witness another Black Hole swallowing its companion star.
Travel to Betelgeuse, a distant Red Supergiant star that will Hypernova someday.
See stellar creation from deep within the Rosette and Eagle Nebulas, giant stellar nurseries.
Observe the deep field galaxies that were photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Hear the sounds of the pulsar in the Crab Nebula, spinning before you at over 30 times a second.
Witness the end of Earth, as it is swallowed by our swelling Red Giant sun 5 billion years from now.
Jump at hyperspeed to the Andromeda galaxy, and to M 87 located in the Virgo Cluster.
Cruise next to Cosmos, a revolutionary new spacecraft that can sail on a “wind” of sunlight.
Travel backward in time 4 billion years to witness the planet “Orpheus” catastrophically collide with Earth to form our Moon.
Learn the efforts being taken to discover if extraterrestrial intelligence exists in the universe.
Travel with the USS Enterprise commanded by Captain Picard as it battles the Borg Empire.
Explore the world of Hollywood and visit the StarWars® worlds of Tatooine, Endor and Hoth. Pace the Death Star or Star Destroyer as the Millennium Falcon swoops in for an attack.
Jump through hyperspace to Pandora and Polyphemus, the beautiful inhabited worlds of the Na'vi, from the hit movie, "Avatar".
Fly directly through a theoretical wormhole on your way to a distant solar system.
Explore fictional solar systems, complete with meticulously detailed, exotic alien civilizations, terraformed moons, futuristic space stations, space fleets, and interstellar spacecraft.

These are just a few of the exciting discoveries awaiting you.
Periodically as new Activities are added, this exciting list will grow.