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    How do we know how many galaxies there are?

    May 13, 2020 2 minutes

    The universe is too vast and our telescopes too small to capture the light from all the universe’s galaxies so that we can count them. So astronomers do the second best thing: they count galaxies in a tiny part of the universe and then multiply the data, assuming that the galaxies of the universe are

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