I don't know how it compares but there's also Cosmonium, which looks like a FOSS alternative to Space Engine: https://github.com/cosmonium/cosmonium
Anyways, both look absolutely stunning.
Anyways, both look absolutely stunning.
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
It's changed a lot over the years, but I figure it belongs in this thread no matter what form it's presently in.
A place I worked from 1999 to about 2002 had what they called a "Keyhole machine." I'm not sure if it was supplied by Keyhole, or it was just the company's machine with Keyhole's software on it, but part of my job was to produce three to ten maps each day for use on a broadcast television station, and it was an incredibly cumbersome process to get the maps from the computer onto videotape (Betacam, IIRC).
I think it is custom built tho, but I would love to see how they did it
Edit: yes, episode 4. http://www.zachtronics.com/podcast/
https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/institutes/ari/gaia/outreach/g...
Since it's being asked for, it has both a planetarium projection mode and an OpenVR branch:
https://typpo.github.io/spacekit/
It's mostly focused on modeling orbits rather than beautiful free-camera renderings, but the visuals aren't terrible and it can model our solar system, exoplanets, render shapes and textures of asteroids, planets, etc.
It's based on the engine I used to build this meteor showers simulation, which has appeared on HN before: https://www.meteorshowers.org/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.StefMorojn...
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/spaceflight-simulator/id130805...
Good thing you mentioned it because I couldn't find them either earlier.
The steam page has screenshots.