The Shapley-Curtis Debate:
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1920
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Are spiral nebulae really other
galaxies, or just swirling clouds of
gas and dust within our own
galaxy?
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Many spiral galaxies had much
larger radial velocities than other
objects within our own galaxy
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Answered by new observations:
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In 1923/4 Edwin Hubble photographed and identified Cepheids in the
Andromeda Galaxy:
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Distance to Cepheids cleared showed Andromeda was outside our own
galaxy