The NENIAS SPACE-VIS ViaLactea Service provides an advanced operational solution for data management and visualization of astrophysics FAIR data surveys of the Galactic Plane to study the star formation process of the Milky Way.

The ViaLactea Visual Analytic (VLVA) tool combines different types of visualization to perform the analysis exploring the correlation between different data, for example 2D intensity images with 3D molecular spectral cubes. All underlying data are managed in the ViaLactea Knowledge Base (VLKB). The VLKB includes 2D and 3D (velocity cubes) surveys, numerical model outputs, point-like and diffuse object catalogues and allows for retrival of all the available datasets as well as cutouts on the positional and/or velocity axis and some merging capabilities on adjacent datasets.

The maturity of ViaLactea service is TRL 7 (system prototype demonstration in operational environment), developed under IVOA Table Access Protocol Recommendation and is aimed to students, researchers and research groups.

You can access the service at European Open Science Cloud marketplace.

For additional information regarding the service, the provider, the service access, the user manual, the release and much more you can visit the Service Documentation page. Also, a multimedia presentation is available on our NEANIAS Youtube Channel.

For any additional information about NEANIAS Space Services, please visit and learn more on our NEANIAS Space Thematic Services page.