GK
THE UNIVERSE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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millions or billions
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thousands
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hundreds
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Ten
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Detailed explanation-1: -Stars are not scattered randomly through space, they are gathered together into vast groups known as galaxies. The Sun belongs to a galaxy called the Milky Way. Astronomers estimate there are about 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way alone. Outside that, there are millions upon millions of other galaxies also!
Detailed explanation-2: -Our Milky Way galaxy is just one of the billions of galaxies in the universe. Within it, there are at least 100 billion stars, and on average, each star has at least one planet orbiting it.
Detailed explanation-3: -While estimates among different experts vary, an acceptable range is between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies, said Mario Livio, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Milky Way is the galaxy in which our Solar System lives. There are more than 200 billion stars in our spiral galaxy, and our Sun is just one of them. Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take you about 100, 000 years to get across the Milky Way.