• Question: How many galaxies are there?

    Asked by anthayward to Alex, Amy, Andy, Georgia, Ollie on 12 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Andy MacLeod

      Andy MacLeod answered on 12 Jun 2011:

      Lots. Probably more than we’ll ever be able to know.

      Hi anyhayward. I’ve seen Brian Cox quoted as saying there are over 350 million galaxies in the observable universe. And he should know, he used to be a (pop) star. 🙂

      But that’s only the ones we can see. In the entire universe, there’s likely to be hundreds of billions.

      Space is big. Really really big.

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