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How many stars are in our Milky Way galaxy?

100-400 billion

Background

Our Milky Way holds 100 to 400 billion stars. Our Sun is just one of them. Light needs around 100,000 years to cross the galaxy from one side to the other. The universe contains at least 100 billion more galaxies.

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