Scientists working on Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope project have increased the estimated number of galaxies in the universe by a factor of 10, the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI) has announced.
Verifying the number of galaxies that the universe contains is "one of the most fundamental questions in astronomy", the STSI explained, and a new analysis of data retrieved from the Hubble Space Telescope and other observations increases that number dramatically.
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