And the Number Continues to Grow

According to a recently published article on USA Today's website the universe holds far more stars than scientists originally thought. The article, titled "Universe Holds Billions More Stars than Previously Thought", points to recent discoveries of "red dwarf" stars, and how they increase the number of stars that scientists thought were in the universe significantly. From the article, and a quote from Pieter van Dokkum:

"The surprising thing is only now are we getting a handle on a fundamental thing like the number of stars in the sky." Based on a survey of eight nearby elliptical galaxies, he says the universe likely contains at least 100 sextillion stars (that's 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars for folks who like big numbers), triple previous estimates.

Allow me to translate: "There are a lot more things out there than we really thought there were... and we're still counting."

Ponder this in relation to the following:

"When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?" (Psalms 8:3-4 NKJV)

~Daniel