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Zaza said, "Incidentally, the count of the Deep Field image is >1500 galaxies in approximately 1 in 28 millionths of the sky. Which leads to a rough estimate of 42 billion galaxies. And that's within the visible sphere afforded by Hubble. There is plenty of Universe further away than Hubble can see."
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That means we need to start naming these galaxies for the archives. If there are at least 42 billion of them, it will be interesting to see how that is done to obtain unique names that we can all pronounce.

It may take a ruling by the government and a grant from the Gates foundation to get it started. Now, if one of these galaxies is found to contain a planet that resembles ours, should we call it Earth II or perhaps Earth Angel?

However, I am not sure how we are ever going to ascertain the existence of this other earth.
i see no reason to name them all. The stars themselves 99% of the time just have greek-alphabet designations based on their relative brightness in the constellation they exist in. Stars that are not normally visible to the naked eye don't even have this.