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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
As astronomers scanned the night sky with larger telescopes ... astronomer William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way. He cataloged a thousand new nebulae and clusters of stars.