GK
THE UNIVERSE
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Solar System
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Sun
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Star
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Galaxy
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Detailed explanation-1: -Located almost a billion light-years away, IC 1101 is the single largest galaxy that has ever been found in the observable universe . Just how large is it? At its largest point, this galaxy extends about 2 million light-years from its core, and it has a mass of about 100 trillion stars.
Detailed explanation-2: -It has over 200 billion stars. The Milky Way is only a medium sized galaxy with an estimated 200 billion stars. The largest galaxy we know of is called IC 1101 and has over 100 trillion stars.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Triangulum galaxy’s diameter is about 60, 000 light-years, or about 60% that of our Milky Way. It’s thought to contain some 40 billion stars. In contrast, there are 100-400 billion stars in the Milky Way and a trillion (1, 000 billion) stars in the Andromeda galaxy.