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Star Wares: 7 Stellar Apps to Chart the Night Sky

Chart a course to infinity and beyond with these far out apps for kids.

By Kipp Jarecke-Cheng July 7, 2016

Few experiences inspire a greater sense of child-like curiosity than looking up at the night sky and gazing at twinkling constellations of planets and stars. Little wonder, then, that there are so many songs and lullabies devoted to celebrating the distant lights that shine above us. Flip through our heavenly album to discover a starry array of edutaining and easy-to-navigate apps that’ll help junior Galileos deepen their love and appreciation of the cosmos.

Starlight

Tiny cosmologists will become starry-eyed over this elegant app that turns mobile devices into handheld sky viewers. With beautifully illustrated images, Starlight makes constellations come to life with a vibrant backdrop of stars that are colored according to their actual stellar classifications. Featuring more than 100,000 stars from the Hipparcos database, including all 88 western constellations, the app is chockful of material, including trivia that connects stars to science fiction and many folklore tales behind constellations.

For ages 5 & up.

Available on iTunes, $0.99 and Google Play, free.

What’s your favorite stargazing app? Tell us in the comments below!

—Kipp Jarecke-Cheng