• Question: how many galaxies do you think there are in the entire universe

    Asked by poppxx to Tom on 26 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:


      500 million? Perhaps there are more? I just can’t imagine these huge numbers, so it is almost meaningless to me…although fun to try and picture myself as a tiny speck on our plant which is itself a small part of our solar system which in turn is a tiny, tiny bit of our galaxy and our galaxy is one of a massive number of galaxies. And that’s just the stuff that we know about!

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