"90% of Distant Galaxies in Universe Unseen" --European Space Agency

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The European Space Agency’s Herschel space telescope has discovered that previously unseen distant galaxies are responsible for a cosmic fog of infrared radiation. The galaxies are some of the faintest and furthest objects seen by Herschel, and open a new window on the birth of stars in the early Universe. Astronomers estimate that their are billions and billions of galaxies in the observable universe (as well as some seven trillion dwarf galaxies) .
Here's how astronomers breakout the visible universe within 14 billion light years:
Superclusters in the visible universe = 10 million
Galaxy groups in the visible universe = 25 billion
Large galaxies in the visible universe = 350 billion
Dwarf galaxies in the visible universe = 7 trillion
Stars in the visible universe = 30 billion trillion (3x10²²)

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http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/05/astronomers-predict-90-of-distant-galaxies-in-universe-unseen-.html

[DrDan]

1. 30 billion trillion stars in the visible universe? Could I feel any less significant . . . .

[snagglepuss]

2. That figure caught my eye as well. I would be mightly impressed if

I read there were 30 trillion stars but 30 billion trillion and that is just in the visible universe. There are no words..

[silverweb]

3. Absolutely mindblowing.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Antoine de Saint-Exupery said, “I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.”

When I contemplate our universe, my mind and imagination fly, and I experience the same kind of release. What better way to get unstuck from mundane annoyances and attachments.

And just think -- there are actually cosmologists who believe that our universe may be only one in a multiverse of universes!

[BlueJazz]

4. Geez...I really didn't mind being a hologram but now I'm an insignificant hologram

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. "if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size ...

... then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."

To explain — since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation — every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.
The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.
Trin Tragula — for that was his name — was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.
"Have some sense of proportion!" she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.
And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex — just to show her.
And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy