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Just imagining the number of unique worlds these 800k galaxies contain really blows my mind. Especially when there are probably a lot more to be discovered.
by tiagod 1y ago
Just imagining the number of unique worlds these 800k galaxies contain really blows my mind. Especially when there are probably a lot more to be discovered.
- pantulis 1y agoAnd consider these are 800k galaxies mapped in the subtending angle of three moons in the sky...
- vitorbaptistaa 1y agoIf Claude is correct, these 0.54 square degrees represent 0.0013% of the full 41,253 square degrees of the sky (4*pi steradians).
- tiagod 1y agoI checked the math and it is correct! So assuming this is a representative sample, there would be 800000/0.000013 ~= 61 billion galaxies in the celestial sphere. According to Wikipedia, "It is estimated that there are between 200 billion to 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe." Edited: Off by some orders of magnitude.