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Ok, it's a real skybox, meaning that it's not a big sphere put around stars. It's drawn before the rest is drawn and has no coordinates. More specifically, I draw like this: First the skybox (milkyway) is draw. Then the stars of other star systems are drawn as dots. Then the planets are sorted and d...

Hi, If it's for a computer game, then perhaps you need not an absolutely scientifically exact texture of the Milky Way. You may want to try playing with the 2MASS pictures there: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04250 ... to extract the side view of the galaxy and build something looking...

Hi, I'm making a computer game that is a space game and I need textures for all planets of the solar system, the sun and the milkyway. I discovered Celestia has very nice textures of all those planets. Are those textures public domain? Can I use them for my spacegame? Are there any restrictions? Tha...