Perspective: What Aliens Might Show You

You are one of 6,715,569,232 ( 6.7 billion) humans as of August 9, 2008, or if you skip forward 15 years to the year 2023, you are one of 8,016,994,260 (8 billion) humans on the planet Earth. If aliens showed you relative sizes of your planet and others in the solar system, you might see something like this:

The Milky Way galaxy, visible at night from Earth, contains about 500,000,000,000 (500 billion) stars. This is just one galaxy. Next, look at a Hubble Telescope Ultra Deep Field Infrared View Of Countless ‘Entire’ Galaxies Billions Of Light-Years Away:

Below Is A Close Up Of One Of The Darkest Regions Of The Photo Above.

Now How Big … ?- dragonfaerie

There are over 70 sextillion stars in the known Universe, that’s 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Put another way, there are 10 times as many stars in the universe as there are grains of sand on all of our beaches and deserts. Well, that was in 2008. In 2023, we could speculation that aliens would tell you the estimated number of stars in the universe is around 300 sextillion, which is three times more than the previous calculations. This new estimate is based on the study led by Yale University astronomer Pieter van Dokkum, who found that there are far more red dwarfs than previously thought, leading to the inflation of the total star count[1][2][3][5].

This is just the stars we can see. There are many more stars than this, because the universe is so big that light from the other side, which has been traveling toward us for 13.73 billion years when the universe was formed, hasn’t reached us yet.

With this new perspective, will your life now change?

Citations:

^{[1] https://www.the-review.com/story/news/2010/12/02/new-study-suggests-there-are/19160558007/
[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/12/01/131730552/-trillions-of-earths-could-be-orbiting-300-sextillion-stars
[3] https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2010/12/02/study-estimates-300-sextillion-stars-in-the-universe/
[4] https://www.foxnews.com/science/scientists-find-200-sextillion-more-stars-in-the-sky
[5] https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/star-count-triples-to-300-sextillion-1.922683}