You and I are tiny specks on a small planet that travels around one star in the galaxy called the Milky Way. This one galaxy has anywhere from 100 to 400 billion stars. And there are an almost unfathomable number of galaxies. Even if there are only 10 billion galaxies, that would mean the number of stars in the universe is 1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000. And as our telescopes probe further into the universe, astronomers keep increasing the number of galaxies. One recent estimate is 2 trillion galaxies.
UNIMAGINABLY TINY, UNFATHOMABLY IMPORTANT
UNIMAGINABLY TINY, UNFATHOMABLY IMPORTANT
UNIMAGINABLY TINY, UNFATHOMABLY IMPORTANT
You and I are tiny specks on a small planet that travels around one star in the galaxy called the Milky Way. This one galaxy has anywhere from 100 to 400 billion stars. And there are an almost unfathomable number of galaxies. Even if there are only 10 billion galaxies, that would mean the number of stars in the universe is 1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000. And as our telescopes probe further into the universe, astronomers keep increasing the number of galaxies. One recent estimate is 2 trillion galaxies.