the Milky Way galaxy is our cosmic home
but it is far from being the only
galaxies in the universe to get a better
understanding of the composition and
evolution of our universe astronomers
try to answer a deceptively simple
question how many galaxy's other in the
universe
on a dark night the Milky Way can be
seen as a glowing band across the night
sky and for a long time it was thought
that the entire universe consisted of
our galaxy alone this only changed in
1924 in the year that Edwin Hubble
identified variable stars in several
spiral nebulae he used these stars to
calculate the distances to these nebulae
his observations prove that these stars
were far too distant to belong to our
Milky Way they instead were members of
other galaxies far outside the Milky Way
since then astronomers have tried to
find out just how many galaxies there
are in the observable universe
a reliable first estimate could only be
made after the Hubble Deep Field was
observed in 1995 this was the first real
deep look into the universe and it
revealed hundreds of galaxies that had
never been seen before
additional deep observations with Hubble
and other instruments followed detecting
even fainter and more distant galaxy s
from these observations astronomers
determined that the universe contained a
total of a hundred and twenty billion
galaxies these are only the galaxies
within the so-called observable universe
this consists of all objects that can in
principle be observed with telescopes
like Hubble those from which light has
had time to reach us since the beginning
of the universe beyond this limit known
as the cosmological horizon the universe
continues just how far it goes is yet an
unanswered question
now astronomers have carried out a new
analysis of published data from Hubble
and other telescopes they have concluded
that the previous estimate of the number
of galaxies within the observable
universe is at least 10 times too low
they think that some ninety percent of
the galaxies in the universe are
actually to faint and too far away to be
observed by the current generation of
telescopes astronomers can only infer
their existence based on models and
calculations the newly collected data
has allowed astronomers to look back
more than 13 billion years into the past
to the early days of the universe this
look back unveiled an early universe in
which the density of galaxies was also
10 times higher that today most of these
galaxies were relatively small and faint
with masses similar to those of the
satellite galaxies surrounding the Milky
Way
these results are powerful evidence that
galaxies evolved and groove I emerges
throughout the universe's history
dramatically reducing their total number
over time with ninety percent of the
galaxies in our universe yet to be
observed there is still much left to
explore and to discover for Hubble and
the upcoming james webb space telescope
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Nature has surprised us beyond our
wildest imagination
now that you've caught up with Hubble
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ground to the e so cast highlights the
best of the european southern
observatory and it's powerful telescopes
that observe from high in the chilean
andes at the southern hemisphere's best
known sites for astronomical
observations
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