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No. It is a disk-shaped galaxy, like a pinwheel, with several curved radial arms and a large mass at the center.

The closest thing to a "clump" of stars are the so-called "globular clusters" which are more spherical in organization than other common galaxies.

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How many Red Dwarf Stars are there in the Milky Way Galaxy that we know of in October of 2011?

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How many stars are identified in your milky way galaxy and Andromeda?

We will never have any accurate answer, for several reasons. 1. We're inside the Milky Way, and there is at least a third of it that is hidden from view on the other side of the galactic core. Estimates as to the number of stars in our galaxy ranged up to 400 billion stars, but that was just a guess. 2. In the last year or so, the estimates have more than DOUBLED, because we now think that there are vastly more of the very small and dim "brown dwarf" stars. We now estimate that there may be a TRILLION stars in the Milky Way. 3. Andromeda is a very long way away; the only individual stars that can be seen are the few very brightest stars such as supernovas. But because Andromeda is, we think, even larger than the Milky Way, an estimate of a trillion stars is probably quite reasonable.


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What galaxy is Canopus from?

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The earth is part of galaxy called the milky way?

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