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Old 04-July-2009, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by PsalmistDavid
It is thought that Andromeda is nearly twice the span/size of our galaxy, the Milky Way, with multiple hundreds of billions of stars.
FYI, just recently the mass of the Milky Way was recalculated and is now thought to be approximately the same size as Andromeda.
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