How many galaxies are in the observable universe?
Science brutal Data from 2024
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The answer
2,000,000,000,000 galaxies
Roughly 2T.
Estimates put the observable universe at around 2 trillion galaxies. Each holds tens or hundreds of billions of stars. There are more stars in the observable universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth, by a factor of thousands.
Where this number comes from
| Source | NASA / Hubble Deep Field analyses |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | galaxies |
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