Odd I stumbled on to this site obviously from a google search how long does vic w/d last and felt compelled to read every post. I am sitting here at the 24 hour mark and its not dreadful but it is pretty bad.
The best estimate from a 1999 study set that number at about 125 billion galaxies, but a 2013 study - after the Hubble Space Telescope was upgraded considerably - indicated that there are 225 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
500 Billion --A Universe of Galaxies: Some Older than Milky Way. June 10, 2013. he Hubble Space Telescope site estimates there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe. A recent German super-computer simulation estimates that the number may be as high as 500 billion, with many older than the Milky Way.