Each speck you see in this animation is a galaxy, and each contains several hundred billion stars. Almost all the stars are thought to have planetary systems. These are actual photographs of these galaxies and their relative positions, drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 3. But this is a small slice of the visible universe, with only 400,000 galaxies mapped. There are thought to be at least a hundred billion galaxies in the visible universe.
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