<story><title>Chart of the Milky Way Includes More Than 1B Stars</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stellar-effort-chart-of-the-milky-way-includes-more-than-1-billion-stars/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>binalpatel</author><text>I love thinking about the sheer scale of it all. This is a billion stars of the ~200-400 billion stars in our galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy (the closest to us) has ~1 trillion stars.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s an estimated 100 billion planets in the Milky Way alone, and who knows how many in the Andromeda galaxy.&lt;p&gt;There could be another satellite somewhere in this galaxy charting space just like this and we&amp;#x27;d just be a bright dot to them among billions of other bright dots.</text></comment>
<story><title>Chart of the Milky Way Includes More Than 1B Stars</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stellar-effort-chart-of-the-milky-way-includes-more-than-1-billion-stars/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sunsunsunsun</author><text>Since the article seemed to neglect actually linking to the data, it is publicly available here:
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