And the Milky Way galaxy is estimated to have 100 billion to 400 billion stars. Just think how many stars and planets are in the universe!
Yep. Not just the number of stars but the distances between them is what I find incomprehensible. And therefore the size of the universe. If the sun were shrunk to a marble, 1 cm across, then the nearest star would be another marble 180 miles way. And it’s only the closest of 400 billion other ones in our galaxy. And there are another 1 or 2 trillion galaxies beyond that which we can see. How many ways are there to explain how unimaginably gigantic the universe is? I keep trying, but there’s no way to really understand it.