In recognition of the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei’s first celestial observations, 2009 has been designated the International Year of Astronomy. To celebrate, NASA’s Great Observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-Ray Observatory, have collaborated to produce another spectacular view, composed of x-rays, infared light, and visible light, of our universe.
The Mary L. Cook Public Library unveiled two enormous prints (6'x3' and 3'x4') that display multiwavelength views of the cosmos obtained by Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra. One print displays the combined Hubble-Spitzer-Chandra images. A second print displays the three seperate high-resolution images from Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra side by side. Linda Swartzel, director of the library, presented these two pictures at 6:30pm on November 17th.
