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A galaxy.

We live in one corner of a galaxy that we have named the "Milky Way" galaxy. It is thought to contain anywhere from 200 to perhaps 400 billion stars.

The grouping of billions of stars, gas, and dust into a physically metastable rotating state by gravity is, by definition, a galaxy.

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