Scientific anniversary

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14. It's not my opinion

Or a belief. Or a theory, That ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī documented the first observation of another galaxy. That is what the history of astronomy said happened.
What Hubble did was scientifically prove the existence of other galaxies.
These are different things. I was only mentioning it for both clarity and because historically the work of non-white scientists is often minimized in favor of white scientists.
It was only meant to add more context and history to the body of work.