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Old November 29th 03, 01:28 PM
Sam Wormley
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Default How many galaxies?

Counting the number of galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field
multiplied by the angular extent of the sky estimates about
100 billion galaxies within our observable horizon.

Here is a better source of information that is typically
found on TV.

Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html

WMAP: Foundations of the Big Bang theory
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html

WMAP: Tests of Big Bang Cosmology
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest.html

-Sam Wormley
http://edu-observatory.org/eo/galaxies.html