— Yan Fernandez , associate professor of planetary science and director of the Robinson Observatory

People will literally gasp the first time they see an up-close view of Saturn’s rings or craters on the moon. It’s very satisfying for us to be able to bring the night sky to people in such a visceral way.

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Number of constellations

100 billion+

Number of stars in the Milky Way

100-200 billion

Number of galaxies you could see from Earth using the Hubble telescope

1 trillion

Potential number of galaxies in the universe

100 sextillion

(100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) Estimated number of stars in the universe