{
  "id": 10416461,
  "title": "About the 100th Anniversary Debate",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/about-the-100th-anniversary-debate",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-28T09:37:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NASA Science",
    "slug": "nasa-science",
    "url": "https://science.nasa.gov/apod/about-100th-anniversary-debate/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The 100th Anniversary Debate was organized by the team behind the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), a NASA website that has been publishing space images since 1995. This is not the first debate they have hosted to commemorate the 1920 Great Debate between Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis; there have been three others, all organized in the 1990s. The first of these, marking the 75th Anniversary, took place in 1995, just two months prior to the creation of the first APOD. As of April 26, 2020, the website had published 9,078 APODs and hosted 4 debates. The organizers anticipate this to be their final debate, though the date of the last APOD they will write or edit remains uncertain. This announcement of the debate was first published on the NASA Science website.",
  "summary": "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…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "NASA Science",
        "title": "Participate in the 100th Anniversary Debate",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/participate-in-the-100th-anniversary-debate",
        "published": "2026-09-28T09:40:27.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}