About the 100th Anniversary Debate

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This 100th Anniversary debate has been organized by the same people who have written and edited the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD, main NASA site: https://apod.nasa.gov/) since 1995. This is NOT the first astronomy debate they have organized commemorating the 1920 Great Debate between Shapley and Curtis — there have been three others. All of their other debates were in […] The post About the 100th Anniversary Debate appeared first on NASA Science .

Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss This 100th Anniversary debate has been organized by the same people who have written and edited the  Astronomy Picture of the Day  (APOD, main NASA site:  https://apod.nasa.gov/ ) since 1995. This is NOT the first astronomy debate they have organized commemorating the  1920 Great Debate  between Shapley and Curtis — there have been  three others . All of their other debates were in the 1990s, though. The first of which, the  75th Anniversary debate , occurred in 1995 — about two months before they created the  first APOD . For those keeping score, on 2020 April 26, the count was APODs: 9078, Debates: 4. The organizers expect this to be the last debate that they organize, but when the last APOD will appear — that they write or edit —  they don’t yet know .

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