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Old 02-02-2009, 11:44 AM
Dennis
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Simplistically put:
  • Moons orbit Planets, (like the Moon orbits the Earth, Phobos & Deimos orbit Mars, etc.)
  • Planets orbit Stars, (like Mercury, Venus, Earth, etc orbit the Sun.)
  • Stars exist in Galaxies, (like our Sun in the Milky Way.)
  • Galaxies exist in groups and clusters (like our Milky Way in the Local Group).
  • Galaxy Clusters exist throughout the Universe.
Last time I checked, our Galaxy had approximately 100 billion (100,000,000,000) stars and there are between 125 and 500 billion galaxies in the Universe.

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Dennis
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