New research estimates there are 2 trillion galaxies in the observable region of the cosmos, an order of magnitude more than previously thought.
Astronomers at the University of Nottingham now say the number of galaxies in the observable Universe is 2 trillion, more than 10 times as many as previously thought.
.. There’s only one way to count galaxies with existing technology: Point a telescope at a small chunk of sky, tally up the number you see, and then extrapolate that across the whole sky.
.. “It boggles the mind that over 90 percent of the galaxies in the [observable] Universe have yet to be studied,”