alt Hacker News> They’re aiming for 50 million galaxies once the survey is complete... Sure, the DESI survey is less than 1% of all the galaxies in the observable volume of the cosmos
That just broke my brain. Had to look it up. 2+ trillion galaxies in the observable universe? That puts things in perspective all right
Each one thousands to hundreds of thousands of light years across, and with millions of light years between them.