{"id":5652,"date":"2019-01-02T10:25:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2019-01-02T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T18:52:50","slug":"how-many-galaxys-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/01\/02\/how-many-galaxys-are-there\/","title":{"rendered":"How many galaxys are there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5648\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw010219-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5648\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw010219-2-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"How many galaxys are there?\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw010219-2-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw010219-2.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How many galaxys are there?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Estimates vary. A lot. Space.com reports that the range accepted by many astronomers is 100-200 billion (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/galaxies-billions\">bit.ly\/galaxies-billions<\/a>). As if that weren&#8217;t a pretty wide range already, phys.org reports that a group of European researchers recently found that we&#8217;d missed a few, and the number could be more like 2 trillion. (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/galaxies-trillions\">bit.ly\/galaxies-trillions<\/a>). Incidentally, the team that found 2 trillion was begun by an undergraduate student (Aaron Wilkinson) who is now close to done with his Ph.D. on this very topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estimates vary. A lot. Space.com reports that the range accepted by many astronomers is 100-200 billion (bit.ly\/galaxies-billions). As if that weren&#8217;t a pretty wide range already, phys.org reports that a group of European researchers recently found that we&#8217;d missed a few, and the number could be more like 2 trillion. (bit.ly\/galaxies-trillions). Incidentally, the team that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/01\/02\/how-many-galaxys-are-there\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How many galaxys are there?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5656,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions\/5656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}