Comment on Ate there more galaxies in the universe, than stars that can be seen from Earth with the naked eye, or with a telescope?

• BurgerBaron@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I was curious, so:

  https://worldpopulationreview.com/metrics/how-many-trees-are-in-the-world

  3 trillion trees.

  vs

  100 - 400 billion stars.

  https://www.space.com/25959-how-many-stars-are-in-the-milky-way.html

  https://astro.arizona.edu/news/how-many-stars-are-milky-way-more-you-can-imagine

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  • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Where are they hiding all these trees? I just looked outside and saw, like, 5 tops.

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    • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well I’m seeing like 5 over here as well, so we’re up to 10.

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      • myster0n@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Unless you’re seeing the same trees

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      also clonal trees, usually count as one.

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      • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Damn. This is complicated. We can’t even count 1-10 trees properly. How did someone manage to count all 3 trillion??

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s why it’s such a fun fact.

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