StardustXplore: Star Finder AR
Night Sky Map & Eclipse Alerts
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases
iPhone
New: Sky Events. Every eclipse, meteor shower and supermoon for years ahead, timed for where you are, with alerts before the best nights. Plus Star Finder AR.
Hold your phone up to the night sky and StardustXplore tells you exactly what you're looking at. Know every eclipse, meteor shower and supermoon coming up where you live, with an alert before the best nights. Then go further, with NASA's own pictures, science data and the latest space news, all in one beautiful app for stargazing and astronomy.
STAR FINDER: THE NIGHT SKY, NAMED
Point your iPhone anywhere and Star Finder lays the sky over your camera in real time.
• Nearly 3,000 stars, every one you can see with the naked eye
• All 88 constellations, drawn and labelled
• The Sun, Moon and all eight planets, positioned live for your exact time and place
• The brightest galaxies, nebulae and star clusters
• Tap anything for its story: what it is, how bright, how far away
• Find mode: search "Saturn" or "Orion" and an arrow guides you straight to it
• Night vision mode turns everything red to protect your dark-adapted eyes
• Works even when it's cloudy: switch the camera off and explore a perfect dark sky
• See something amazing? One tap shows NASA's photographs of it
SKY EVENTS: NEVER MISS AN ECLIPSE OR METEOR SHOWER
A sky calendar for years ahead, timed for exactly where you are.
• Solar and lunar eclipses, with how much you'll see from your location and when to look
• All the major meteor showers, with the best hours to watch, how many to expect and how much moonlight will interfere
• Full moons, new moons, supermoons and blue moons, with moonrise times
• Planets at their best, and the Moon and planets pairing up close
• Tonight at a glance: sunset, darkness, the Moon's phase, and which planets are up and where
• Automatic alerts before the big events, or a reminder for any event you choose
• Every event comes with a NASA photograph, the story behind it and tips on how to watch
• Tap any planet to find it in Star Finder
ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
A stunning new image of the cosmos every day, explained by a professional astronomer.
NASA'S IMAGE LIBRARY
Browse NASA's image archive by subject: Mars, the Moon, the planets, galaxies, nebulae, Earth from space, astronauts and launches. Open any image full screen and zoom in.
THE SCIENCE, LIVE
• Exoplanets: every one of the 6,000+ confirmed planets beyond our solar system, sortable and searchable
• Space weather: solar flares, coronal mass ejections and geomagnetic storms as NASA reports them
• Near-Earth asteroids: which ones pass Earth this week, how close and how big
• Earth Now: our whole planet photographed from a million miles away, plus live wildfires, storms and volcanoes
SKY MAP
Fly across the whole sky in real telescope imagery. Zoom into the Orion Nebula or the Andromeda Galaxy, switch to infrared, ultraviolet or gamma rays to see the same sky in a new light, and visit more than 1,000 famous objects.
SPACE NEWS
The latest headlines on NASA missions, launches and discoveries from leading spaceflight news sites, so you never miss a launch or a landing.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no ads, no tracking. Your location and camera are used on your phone to draw the sky and time events, and are never sent anywhere. Reminders are scheduled on your phone too.
STARDUSTXPLORE PLUS
Try everything free for 7 days. After the trial, StardustXplore Plus is $0.99 a month and unlocks the entire app.
• Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm your purchase or when the free trial ends.
• The subscription renews automatically each month unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID account settings.
Terms of Use: https://stardustxplore.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://stardustxplore.com/privacy
StardustXplore is an independent app built on NASA's public data. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA.
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Information
- Seller
- Swan Solutions LLC
- Size
- 6.3 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
• iPhone 6S
• iPhone 6S Plus
• iPhone SE (1st generation)
• iPhone 7
• iPhone 7 Plus
• iPhone 8
• iPhone 8 Plus
• iPhone X
• iPhone XS
• iPhone XS Max
• iPhone XR
• iPhone 11
• iPhone 11 Pro
• iPhone 11 Pro Max
• iPhone SE (2nd generation)
• iPhone 12 mini
• iPhone 12
• iPhone 12 Pro
• iPhone 12 Pro Max
• iPhone 13 Pro
• iPhone 13 Pro Max
• iPhone 13 mini
• iPhone 13
• iPhone SE (3rd generation)
• iPhone 14
• iPhone 14 Plus
• iPhone 14 Pro
• iPhone 14 Pro Max
• iPhone 15
• iPhone 15 Plus
• iPhone 15 Pro
• iPhone 15 Pro Max
• iPhone 16
• iPhone 16 Plus
• iPhone 16 Pro
• iPhone 16 Pro Max
• iPhone 16e
• iPhone 17 Pro
• iPhone 17 Pro Max
• iPhone 17
• iPhone Air
• iPhone 17e
• iPhone 18 Pro
• iPhone 18 Pro Max
• iPhone Duo
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- StardustXplore Plus $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Swan Solutions LLC