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What was the reaction of the general public in 1924 when Edwin Hubble announced that the spiral nebula Andromeda was actually another galaxy, and that our own galaxy was just one of many? This seems like it would have a profound effect on the world, but did anyone care?

by /u/SuperNintendad in /r/AskHistorians

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