Mueller Planetarium invites you to take a journey to the Center of the Galaxy! Two new mural-sized images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory will be unveiled in the lobby of Mueller Planetarium on Sunday, November 15 at 4 p.m. The stunning photographs of the the Milky Way galaxy's core commemorate the International Year of Astronomy and will be unveiled Tim Clare, member of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. The unveiling wil be followed by a talk on Black Holes by Dr. Jack Gabel of Creighton University.

The Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory are NASA's premiere space astronomy missions, known collectively as the Great Observatories. In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, the three telescopes have collaborated to produce an unprecedented image of the central region of our Milky Way Galaxy.

The International Year of Astronomy 2009 celebrates the 400th anniversary of Galileo first turning a telescope to the heavens. From Galileo's first spyglass, telescopes have grown ever larger and ever better, and have moved to mountaintops and to space. NASA's Great Observatories represent the achievements of astronomy four centuries later and are honoring this legacy with a national image unveiling. Mueller Planetarium and the University of Nebraska State Museum was selected to present these incredible images to the people of Lincoln.

The new images will be permanently on display in the lobby of Mueller Planetarium.