From Toby Ordās The Edges of Our Universe:
The expansion of space will prevent us from ever affecting 95% of the galaxies we can currently observe.
However, our āaffectable universeā still contains about 20 billion galaxies, housing at least 10Ā²Ā¹ stars.
Divided equally among Earthās 10 billion people, each personās share of this cosmic endowment would be 100 billion stars.
To count your share, you would need to count by 31 each second for over a century:
31 Mississippi62 Mississippi93 Mississippi124 Mississippi155 Mississippi186 Mississippi217 Mississippi248 Mississippi279 Mississippi310 Mississippi...
31 Mississippi
62 Mississippi
93 Mississippi
124 Mississippi
155 Mississippi
186 Mississippi
217 Mississippi
248 Mississippi
279 Mississippi
310 Mississippi
...
Counting the 117 million visible stars in this close-up of Andromeda galaxy would take about 44 days
31 Mississippi
From Toby Ordās The Edges of Our Universe:
The expansion of space will prevent us from ever affecting 95% of the galaxies we can currently observe.
However, our āaffectable universeā still contains about 20 billion galaxies, housing at least 10Ā²Ā¹ stars.
Divided equally among Earthās 10 billion people, each personās share of this cosmic endowment would be 100 billion stars.
To count your share, you would need to count by 31 each second for over a century: