Why bother with Digital Universe Atlas?

He determines the number of the stars
and calls them each by name.  
Psalm 147:4
 
It is quite a garden out there containing billions and billions of different types of celestial objects. 

The Digital Universe Atlas brings highly accurate 3D mapping and modelling of the Universe to our computer screens thus greatly assisting us in comprehending the dimensions of space and time when human curiosity takes us even further from our home planet and the boundaries of our solar system.

"Ours" in the sense that we live in it. It all really belongs, of course, to God of Israel who has made it all and given the stars their paths. He calls them all by name. (We are trying to do the same using our computerized catalogues...)


Below is tabular listing of the default Group Buttons in the Partiview user interface from the Guide for the Milky Way Atlas. (Other atlases that can be viewed with the same software have other buttons.)

I have added links that give compact explanations to the terms and acronyms used in the table. The Milky Way Atlas Guide contains extensive information about each item in the list.

The very impressive listing of what one of the atlases contains should give a quite adequate answer to the question "why bother with Digital Universe Atlas".

Name	Description
stars	The observed stars
altLbl	Greek (Bayer) and Flamsteed star names
err	Stellar distance uncertainty
constel	Constellation connectivity lines
nearstars	Lépine-Shara proper motion star catalog
dwarfs	L and T dwarf catalog
expl	Extrasolar planets
oc	Open star clusters
ob	OB associations
gc	Globular star clusters
pul	Pulsars
pn	Planetary nebulae
h2	Star-forming clouds (a.k.a. Hii Regions)
snr	Supernova remnants
oricl	Orion Nebula star cluster
orineb	Orion Nebula model
oort	Oort Cloud sphere
radec	Equatorial (RA/Dec) coordinates sphere & Radio sphere
eclip	Ecliptic coordinates sphere
galac	Galactic coordinates sphere
mwVis	Visible all-sky survey
mwH	Atomic hydrogen all-sky survey
mwCO	Carbon monoxide all-sky survey
mwFIR	The far-infrared all-sky survey
mwIRASc	The IRAS composite all-sky survey
mw2MASS	The 2MASS all-sky survey
mwHa	The hydrogen-alpha all-sky survey
mwGamma	Gamma-ray all-sky survey
dso	“Deep-sky” images
sloanstars	Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stars
galaxy	An exterior image for the Milky Way
starorbits	One-billion-year stellar orbits
bar	The Galactic bar
bulge	The central bulge of the Galaxy
halo	The Galactic halo
lgrp	Local Group of galaxies
solsys	Planetary orbits of the Solar System
probes	Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft trajectories
1lmo	Grid centered on the Sun extending to 1 light-month
1ly	Grid centered on the Sun extending to 1 light-year
10ly	Grid centered on the Sun extending to 10 light-years
100ly	Grid centered on the Sun extending to 100 light-years
1kly	Grid centered on the Sun extending to 1,000 light-years
10kly	Grid centered on the Sun extending to 10,000 light-years
galGrid	100,000-light-year grid centered on the Milky Way