Great Debate
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astronomy debate held on 26 April 1920 at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History between Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis about whether spiral nebulae were different galaxies or part of the Milky Way
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Vinony's link graph records 118 inbound references to Great Debate, and connects out to Heber Doust Curtis, Sun and Immanuel Kant.
It is catalogued under topics including 1920 in science, 1920 in Washington, D.C. and Astronomy in the United States.
Vinony links it to 27 Wikipedia language editions.
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Heber Doust Curtis
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Immanuel Kant
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Milky Way
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light-year
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theory of relativity
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speed of light in vacuum
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The New York Times
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Andromeda Galaxy
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Edwin Hubble
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Andromeda
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astronomer
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spiral galaxy
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