Astronomy Question of the Week: Where are the nearest islands of stars?

Earth’s home galaxy, the Milky Way, consists of more than 100 billion stars and its spiral arms extend across 100,000 light-years.
As if these were not already virtually inconceivable numbers for humans, the Milky Way is only one galaxy among probably billions of galaxies of various sizes and shapes that can be seen in the [...]

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