Great Debate (astronomy)
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Great Debate (astronomy)
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The Great Debate, also called the Shapley–Curtis Debate, was held on 26 April 1920 at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis. It concerned the nature of so-called spiral nebulae and the size of the Universe. Shapley believed that these nebulae were relatively small and lay within the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, while Curtis held that they were in fact independent galaxies, implying that they were exceedingly large and distant. Th
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1920 debate between Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis on whether there were other galaxies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debate_(astronomy)
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2005-01-01T23:24:52Z
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2024-09-06T15:32:29Z
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