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how do solar system and galaxies differ?





User Geoff Cox
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-- A galaxy is a collection of a huge number of stars ... possibly hundreds
of billions of stars in a galaxy.

-- If a star has planets in orbit around it, then the star and its planets make up
one solar system.

-- There could be hundreds of billions of solar systems in one galaxy.
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