17 Amazing Space Apps To Help Inspire A Love Of Astronomy

It is the perfect way to learn the night sky. It always tells you what’s in the night sky above you even if it’s cloudy out.

Night Sky is a powerful personal planetarium. You can check out 115,000 new celestial objects, as well as accurate recreations of lunar landing sites.

This app works with Nasa’s recently launched Space Images website to send you the latest pictures from the solar system. Throughout the week you’ll get 10–12 sweet photos from observatories and spacecraft, along with brief descriptions.

It is not an app, but a free mobile service. It gives you free text or email notifications whenever the International Space Station is visible. Bright enough to be seen even from a city, you’ll always know when to look up.

It shows you the moon is much more than a smiling face made out of cheese. The app lets you spin the moon and zoom in on anything.

It is an interactive space encyclopedia. It lets you explore the solar system through detailed 3D models. It allows you to interact with planets, satellites, moons, comets, and other space objects anytime and anywhere.

Imagine that you control the entire universe. This app simulates the physics of interacting galaxies as well as computing the gravitational forces between stars. Furthermore, you can change the parameters of the simulation.

This app does a wonderful job of teaching you about space. It provides you with over 15,000 images, 13,000 NASA videos, and all the latest news within astronomy. You can also watch live on NASA TV.

Did you know that you can actually see the International Space Station, with your naked eye, in the middle of the day? ISS Spotter offers a forecast of visible passes, enabling you to set alarms so you’ll always be on time to check it out.

You don’t need to be an astronomer to find stars or constellations in the sky. This app guides you to their location and identifies them. You can locate every planet in our solar system, discover distant galaxies, and witness satellite fly-bys.

SkySarfari has all of the augmented-reality tools you expect in a stargazing app and you can even control them with your voice. Just say “Find Jupiter.”

This app promises to be the most realistic possible view of the skies, showing the scenery above just as you would see them with the naked eye. It literally shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars.

Since Earth is in space, you can have some fun exploring our home planet with the most comprehensive atlas you’ll ever come across. Check out your own house on the street view or you can visit any museum you want.

If you love the starry night and want to know everything in the sky, this app is one of the best. If you just hold up your iPhone and it will tell you exactly what you are pointing at. It also makes the virtual sky a gorgeous view.

With this app, you can get the accurate local times for NASA’s Curiosity and InSight rovers, and the current Coordinated Mars Time. Also, the most recent weather reports sent directly from NASA’s Curiosity rover.

Would you like to know when the next meteor shower is? This app will display a list of upcoming meteor showers and the approximate date in which they will peak with specific details on each.

Lunar calendar is one of the oldest calendars in modern society. A lunar month can only be 29 or 30 days long. In other words, the length of a year is not arbitrarily fixed. This app shows universal lunar calendar for any Locations from 0001 to 2100 years.