Sculpture by John David Mooney
Spiral Galaxy
is an outdoor stainless steel sculpture by
John David Mooney
, installed outside the
Adler Planetarium
on
Chicago
's
Northerly Island
, in the
U.S. state
of
Illinois
.
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The work was commissioned by the
Vatican Observatory
in 1994 to commemorate the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena conference, and inspired by
Galileo
's drawings and early photographs of the closest
galaxies
to Earth. The 14-foot (4.3 m) sculpture was installed at
Navy Pier
in 1998, then temporarily exhibited in
Sarasota, Florida
.
Spiral Galaxy
was moved to its current location in 2005, to commemorate the planetarium's 75th anniversary.
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