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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 September 13 to 22 The Harvest Moon coincides with Friday the 13th this year, but the nearly Full Moon will dominate the evening sky for the next several days. Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:00:00 GMT Hubble sheds new light on lives of star clusters A new look at the Large Magellanic Cloud is helping astronomers better understand how groups of stars evolve. Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:00:00 GMT Astronomers may have just discovered an interstellar comet visiting our solar system <em>Astronomers are increasingly confident that a newly discovered comet is a visitor from another solar system, making it the second known interstellar object.</em> Thu, 12 Sep 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.