> The Milky Way Galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, glimmering star-forming regions, and towering dark clouds of dust and gas.
So our best data set of the milky way shows 310^9 objects. How do we know then, that the are x100*10^9 objects in total?
If true, is staggering that all this data represents less than 1% of all there is in the milky way alone.
> The Milky Way Galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, glimmering star-forming regions, and towering dark clouds of dust and gas.
So our best data set of the milky way shows 310^9 objects. How do we know then, that the are x100*10^9 objects in total?
If true, is staggering that all this data represents less than 1% of all there is in the milky way alone.