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How many galaxies are in the observable universe?

2 trillion
galaxies
2,000,000,000,000 exactly, give or take
Around 2 trillion — each with its own hundreds of billions of stars.SOURCEHubble / Conselice et al., 2016
Scale check: 2 trillion is roughly seconds in 32,000 years.
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