iconicSky app for iPhone and iPad

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Games Education Educational Trivia
Developer: Christian Wolf

Free

Current version: 1.2, last update: 8 years ago
First release : 16 Apr 2011
App size: 46.16 Mb

Do you want to know the most famous planets and galaxies? In play mode, match up their images and names and collect a million points or more. In learning mode, the images are explained and introduce you to many aspects of astronomy. Built-in web-links take you straight to high-resolution image sources and to more information.

With about 250 images, mostly from NASA, ESA and ESO, and 30,000 words of text. iconicSky is presented by Sterne und Weltraum and Spektrum der Wissenschaft (German edition of Scientific American).