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Old 02-02-2009, 12:52 PM
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100 Billion stars is an old, out of date number....the current widely accepted figure is 400 Billion. Though, some recent estimates put the numbers of stars in the Galaxy at 795-800 Billion and the most recent estimate of the Galaxy's mass is about 3 Trillion solar masses.
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