[ROCKLOBSTER]

Amazing and wonderous.

The other night I watched a documentary where they spoke of an estimated 300 Billion stars in the galaxy (ours)

Then I thought of, how many millions of galaxies there are.

[Red Badger]

How Great Thou Art
Writer: Pastor Carl Boberg

O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

Refrain:
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

Refrain

When through the woods, and forest glades I wander,
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees.
When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur
And see the brook, and feel the gentle breeze.

Refrain

And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing;
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;
That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.

Refrain

When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation,
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.
Then I shall bow, in humble adoration,
And then proclaim: “My God, how great Thou art!”

Refrain

[lurk]

So far the number of galaxies is in the hundreds of billions. We keep finding more.

[Hebrews 11:6]

ROCKLOBSTER, perhaps you'll enjoy seeing the photograph of distant galaxies which cemented the number at ~400 billion: the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Astronomers left the Hubble Space Telescope camera open for ten days. What the image shows is a portion of the sky about the size you'd see by looking through a drinking straw. It shows only two foreground stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy--every other item is a very distant galaxy, including the faintest barely-visible dots of light. Astronomers then extrapolated from this census to arrive at their overall estimate.