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.
If you assume that the XDF is a typical region of outer space, you can calculate how many XDFs it would take to fill the entire night sky; itâs about 32 million. Multiply by the number of galaxies you find in the XDFâwhich is around 5,500âand thatâs how we arrive at 176 billion galaxies, at least, in the Universe.