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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 The Sky This Week from March 22 to 31 Evenings find Mars in the same binocular field as the Pleaides star cluster, while the morning sky features the Moon passing close to both Jupiter and Saturn. Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:00:00 GMT NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars <p>In early 2021, a tiny helicopter will land on the Red Planet with the Mars 2020 rover.</p> Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:00:00 GMT This ‘cannonball’ pulsar is racing at escape speed across the Milky Way <em>The newly discovered neutron star is flying across the galaxy so quickly that it could get from Earth to the Moon in six minutes flat.</em> Thu, 21 Mar 2019 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.