• Question: how many galaxies are humans aware of?

    Asked by anon-199016 to Gautam on 12 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Gautam Kambhampati

      Gautam Kambhampati answered on 12 Mar 2019:


      Currently we think there are around 2 trillion galaxies in the observable Universe (the part of the Universe which is close enough to us so that light has had time to reach us). All together they have more stars than there are grains of sand on the Earth!

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