• jacksilver@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I had to looks this one up, but missed the “galaxy” vs “universe”. There are an estimated 3 trillion trees, 100-400 billion stars in the milky way galaxy, but potentially 1 septilliom stars in the universe.

    However all three of these are estimates, so who actually knows.

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      14 minutes ago

      I’m not sure where these numbers are from, but my guess is that you mean the Observable Universe, which is just the part of the universe that we can see.

      We don’t know how big the full universe is, it could be infinite with an infinite number of stars.