The Universe Has Billions More Stars than Once Thought

Funny story written by P.M. Wortham

Thursday, 2 December 2010

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Thanks to deep space analysis and the identification of galaxies even further away than had ever been measured before, scientists now believe that there may be three times as many stars as previously thought.

Astronomer and discoverer, Myron Neepekker said in a news conference, "Doing the math and adding to the excitement, last week we knew that there at least 200 billion galaxies out there, each with hundreds of billions of stars. Now we know there are probably more than 600 billion galaxies out there with hundreds of billions of stars in each. That's a lot!" Indeed. Neepeckers photographs of the deep space field in questions, looked like dandruff specs on a black piece of construction paper.

The sheer numbers involved in the discussion beg the question, "Yeah, so?" Amateur astronomer and sociology professor at Cal State University, Tony Aanderson commented on the Neepecker announcement, "I think picking out a million specs in the night sky is pretty amazing, and I can sort of wrap my head around a billion stars. Hundreds of billions times hundreds of billions? It's almost a pointless number. The dude needs to take a Valium, and check the Milky Way drippage from his red dwarf".

"No, he misses the point", says Neepecker, "This is an amazing discovery! We now know there are new and vast areas of space that we'll never be able to get to!". Neepecker finished the conference hyperventilating into a brown paper bag and performing a Buddhist chant.

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