Universe Might Hold Three Times More Stars
It's a cosmic embarrassment of riches--the universe appears to hold
three
times the number of stars many astronomers might have estimated only a
year ago.
That's the implication a pair of scientists has drawn after measuring
eight huge elliptical galaxies that they selected from two vast galaxy
clusters located between 53 million to 321 million light-years from
Earth.
With as many as 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe, each
with
hundreds of billions of stars, the result -- if it holds up -- implies
an enormous number of additional burning gas balls out there, with
intriguing implications for explanations of how stars and galaxies form
and evolve, researchers say.
Read more:
http://ow.ly/3iLSy
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