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To: LibWhacker

About how many stars are there in our galaxy?


74 posted on 08/16/2005 8:22:02 PM PDT by winodog (We need to pull the fedgov.con's feeding tube)
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To: winodog

Usual estimates run from 100 billion to 200 billion. But I have seen estimates as high as a trillion. Someday we may be surprised to find out how many faint stars are out there that we had no way of estimating back in the year 2005.


84 posted on 08/16/2005 8:37:49 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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