Install latest/stable of Stellarium

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.


Install using the command line

sudo snap install stellarium-daily

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Details for Stellarium

License

  • GPL-2.0

Last updated

  • 9 February 2026 - latest/stable
  • Yesterday - latest/edge

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Desktop Planetarium

  • Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets and nebulae, and has many other features including multiple panoramic landscapes, fog, light pollution simulation and a built-in scripting engine.

  • Stellarium comes with a star catalogue of about 600 thousand stars and it is possible to download extra catalogues with up to 210 million stars.

  • Stellarium has multiple sky cultures - see the constellations from the traditions of Polynesian, Inuit, Navajo, Korean, Lakota, Egyptian and Chinese astronomers, as well as the traditional Western constellations.

  • It is also possible to visit other planets in the solar system - see what the sky looked like to the Apollo astronauts, or what the rings of Saturn looks like from Titan.

If the app crashes in Wayland try : snap run stellarium-daily.stellarium -platform xcb

User Guide :
https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/releases/download/v25.1/stellarium_user_guide-25.3-1.pdf

Translate in Your Own Language : https://www.transifex.com/stellarium/stellarium

Try Web Version : https://stellarium-web.org/


Install Stellarium on your Linux distribution

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