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omnicognateyesterday at 9:15 PM1 replyview on HN

Each one thousands to hundreds of thousands of light years across, and with millions of light years between them.


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chris_sttoday at 12:43 AM

Each galaxy having a few thousand to millions of stars (for a dwarf galaxy), to 100-400 billion stars for a spiral galaxy like ours, to about a trillion stars for large ellipticals like Andromeda.

Kind of a lot.