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Originally Posted by stevoggo
Also most of the stars we are looking at in the night sky are from our own galaxy right?....and ours is just one of thousands, millions...trillions in the universe.
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Every star you see by eye (and even in our amateur scopes) is from the Milky Way unless a star in a distant galaxy goes KABOOM (as in supernova), then we might see it for a few days.
Now, to be pedantic, I'm not quite right above - I think we can make out individual stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds with bigger amateur scopes, but they are companion galaxies of the Milky Way so not very far away (yeah, it's all relative - I wouldn't want to have to drive there!).