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Can a galaxy be bigger than a solar system?

Updated: 11/10/2020
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Yes, they certainly can be. In fact, Galaxies are clusters of solar systems, so they always will be. For example, our solar system is just one of many in the galaxy "Milky Way." We reside around one in many specks of light roughly midway between the edge and center of the Milky Way.

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