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JKCalhoun ◴[26 Jun 25 01:52 UTC] No.44383531[source]▶

> 20 billion galaxies and 17 billion stars…

Are there more visible galaxies than stars? (Discounting of course that those galaxies are comprised of stars.)

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malfist ◴[26 Jun 25 02:07 UTC] No.44383607[source]▶

It's estimated their similar in number. 100b galaxies in the _visible_ universe and the Milky Way has around 100b stars

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1. Retric ◴[26 Jun 25 03:46 UTC] No.44384015[source]▶

We haven’t detected every star in the Milky Way, low mass stars that stars can be very dim.

However we can also detect individual stars in the Andromeda galaxy and several others as well.

At Chile’s Vera Rubin Observatory, Earth’s Largest Camera Surveys the Sky