Last year it was every 3 months sometimes to the day and then I had about a 5 month period without any but now I have had them 2 months in a row almost to the day. I was writing it in my calander trying to go long enough to get the shot (6 months) that is when I noticed they were occurring at exact times.
By extrapolating these results over the entire sky (which is some 10 million times larger), we were able to figure outâat minimumâthat there were at least 100 billion galaxies in the entire Universe. I even made a video about it.
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.