How many stars are in our Milky Way galaxy? Millions or Billions?
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YKhan say: Current estimates are that it's between 200 billion and 400 billion.
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Snowwie888 say: Since it's a lot bigger than previous thought I would not look up weird if it contains a trillion stars.
Andromeda has a trillion stars but the Milky Way is 2.5 times more massive than Andromeda. Can we account all that mass to Dark Matter only?
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poldi2 say: The current estimate is the Milky Way has about 400 billion stars.
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duke_of_urls say: A sagan.
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MARK say: Billions: Our galaxy probably contains 100 to 400 billion stars, and is about 100 000 light-years across.
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Sharon say: ~250-300 billion
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say: Billions. Just look at the distance that milky way covers -- some 52,000 light years (or 100,000 light years I'm not sure).
In such huge area you're going to have billions of stars easily.
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ReductioAdAstronomicus say: Several hundred billion.
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say: Idk but there's a lot
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Norman say: Hundreds of billions.
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YKhan say: Current estimates are that it's between 200 billion and 400 billion.
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CarolOklaNola say: Billions
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