• Question: How mnay galaxies are there?

    Asked by laciekilbey to Ed, Hayley, Jason, Nathan, Sophie on 20 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by priscillaadjaye.
    • Photo: Edward Bovill

      Edward Bovill answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      In our galaxy (the Milky Way) there are estimated to be 200 to 400 billion stars, and in the universe there are estimated to be between 100 and 200 billion galaxies!
      That’s a lot of stars in total (between 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and 80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)

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