GALAXY There are many galaxies besides ours, though. There are so many, we can’t even count them all yet! The Hubble Space Telescope looked at a small patch of space for 12 days and found 10,000 galaxies, of all sizes, shapes, and colors. Some scientists think there could be as many as one hundred billion galaxies in the universe. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/galaxy/en/#:~:text=Milky%20Way%20Galaxy.-,A%20galaxy%20is%20a%20huge%20collection%20of%20gas%2C%20dust%2C%20and,stars%20in%20the%20Milky%20Way.