Determining the distance to "island universes", as they were dubbed in the popular media, established the scale of the universe and settled the Shapley-Curtis debate once and for all.
Zistenie vzdialeností "ostrovných vesmírov", ako ich nazývali populárne médiá, určilo veľkosť vesmíru a navždy vyriešilo Shapleyho-Curtisov spor.