July 25, 2023, Toby Saunders published an article in science.com entitled, How many galaxies are in the Universe? A lot more than you’d think. In the article she said, “the number at this point is close to two trillion galaxies. . . Theoretically, there could be an infinite number of galaxies, as the size of the Universe itself could be infinite.”
It wasn’t until 1920’s that we realized there were more galaxies than the Milky Way galaxy. If the Milky Way had been the entire Universe, we may have been able to eventually count all the worlds within it.
Much earlier in 1851 publication of The Pearl of Great Price, in its selections from the Book of Moses is reference to the size of the Universe. This was an extract from the book of Genesis of Joseph Smith’s translation of the Bible, which he began in June 1830. This scripture refers to these trillions of galaxies created by God long before science was aware of the large uncountable number. Moses 1:33, “And worlds without number have I created; and I also created them for mine own purpose; and by the Son I created them, which is mine Only Begotten.”
M. Kasey 