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Hayden Planetarium. Outer Space Black Light Gallery; Astronomical Black Light Gallery; Outer Space Black Light Gallery; Black Light Gallery
birth: approximately 1953
death: 1997
Permanent exhibition. Opened approximately 1953 and closed January 5, 1997. Located on Floor 1, Section 18. The Outer Space Black Light Gallery at the Hayden Planetarium featured 4,000 square feet of 14 large astronomical murals depicting the lunar landscape, Aurora Borealis, other planets in our solar system, eclipses of the sun and moon, solar prominences, galactic nebulae, and star clusters. The gallery exhibited the Ahnighito meteorite before it was moved to the Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites in 1981, and the Willamette Meteorite, now (as of 2017) exhibited in the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Hall of the Universe (1, 1979/80 p. 16; 2, 1984, p. 63; 3, 1953, p. 35-40; 4, 1997).
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