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The intention of Universe3D.org is to host links to web content that enable the enhancement of our three-dimensional view of the Universe. Feel free to join in and edit--Wikipedia-style!

Recently added Dataset Methanol MultiBeam Survey The Methanol MultiBeam Survey is a sensitive survey of massive young stars in the Milky Way Galaxy to detect methanol masers. The survey is carried out by scanning the telescope in galactic longitude. Spectra cover a 4-MHz band, corresponding to a velocity range of 180 km/s, with 2048 channels each separated by 0.09 km/s. Regions towards the galactic centre are scanned more than once with different velocity settings, so that all likely radial velocities are searched. A second frequency band centred on the 6035-MHz line of hydroxyl (OH) is observed in parallel with the methanol band. Astronomy News Touchdown on Titan: How we landed a probe on another planet's moon In 2005, the Huygens probe pierced the shroud of Saturn's moon Titan to reveal a surprisingly Earth-like world. Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:00:00 GMT The sky this week for October 19 to 28 The Orionid meteor shower, a slew of bright planets, and an asteroid for good measure, all in the sky this week. Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:00:00 GMT Astronomers find the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way Kes 75’s unique properties, revealed by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, could provide new information about how stars die. Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:00:00 GMT News Cosmography of the Local Universe View a film by Hélène Courtois, Daniel Pomarède, R. Brent Tully, Yehuda Hoffman, and Denis Courtois. All rights reserved.

Milky Way 3D: Galactic Plane Coverage Tool An interactive Milky Way 3D coverage tool linked to surveys is at http://milkyway3d.org. Survey Coverage of the Milky Way A hyperlinked visual summary (pdf) of all ongoing relevant surveys, prepared in conjunction with the NSF proposal, The Hierarchical Structure of Star-Forming Regions in the Milky Way.