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  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_galaxy

     

    I don't want to suggest that the Wikpee is an authority, but this does roughly correspond to what you might learn in a general astro course. We were told that Milky has about 400 billion. That was some time back. I don't know what the best estimate is now.

     

    A dwarf has just a few billion, like under 10 billion. Apparently the classification is fuzzy.

     

    Hi Martin. Thanks for the reply.

     

    The problem is that wikipedia later says in a different article that "typical galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million (10^7) stars up to giants with one trillion (10^12) stars, all orbiting a common center of mass".

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy

     

    So can a dwarf galaxy contain only 10 million stars or is this number too small?

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