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At the moment, or even in the future - we will never know.

Even if we managed to explore every star and planet in the whole Milky Way, by the time we had finished, more moons would have been created somewhere else.

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As we only know of one planet with life on it, the population of the Milky Way is the same as the population on Earth.

Currently around 6.9 billion people.

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That really depends on the exact interpretation of the term "discovered". We haven't actually sent probes (manned or unmanned), even to the nearest star - whose distance, about 4 light-years, is a trifle compared to the size of the galaxy (about 100,000 light-years in diameter). We do have a general idea of the shape of the galaxy. Some stars have been classified, but even of those who have been classified, in most cases not much is known about them.

That really depends on the exact interpretation of the term "discovered". We haven't actually sent probes (manned or unmanned), even to the nearest star - whose distance, about 4 light-years, is a trifle compared to the size of the galaxy (about 100,000 light-years in diameter). We do have a general idea of the shape of the galaxy. Some stars have been classified, but even of those who have been classified, in most cases not much is known about them.

That really depends on the exact interpretation of the term "discovered". We haven't actually sent probes (manned or unmanned), even to the nearest star - whose distance, about 4 light-years, is a trifle compared to the size of the galaxy (about 100,000 light-years in diameter). We do have a general idea of the shape of the galaxy. Some stars have been classified, but even of those who have been classified, in most cases not much is known about them.

That really depends on the exact interpretation of the term "discovered". We haven't actually sent probes (manned or unmanned), even to the nearest star - whose distance, about 4 light-years, is a trifle compared to the size of the galaxy (about 100,000 light-years in diameter). We do have a general idea of the shape of the galaxy. Some stars have been classified, but even of those who have been classified, in most cases not much is known about them.

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There are 17 satelite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way.

  1. Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy
  2. Sagittarius Dwarf Spherical Galaxy
  3. Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Galaxy
  4. Bootes Dwarf Galaxy
  5. Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) Galaxy
  6. Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy
  7. Draco Dwarf Galaxy
  8. Sextans Dwarf Spherical Galaxy
  9. Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy
  10. Ursa Major 1 Dwarf Galaxy
  11. Carina Dwarf Galaxy.
  12. Fornax Dwarf Galaxy
  13. Leo II Dwarf Galaxy
  14. Leo I Dwarf Galaxy
  15. Leo T Dwarf Galaxy
  16. Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy
  17. Barnard's Galaxy (NGC 6822)
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That really depends on the exact interpretation of the term "discovered". We haven't actually sent probes (manned or unmanned), even to the nearest star - whose distance, about 4 light-years, is a trifle compared to the size of the galaxy (about 100,000 light-years in diameter). We do have a general idea of the shape of the galaxy. Some stars have been classified, but even of those who have been classified, in most cases not much is known about them.

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The milky way is the name of our galaxy, there are no other galaxies in it.

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Astronomers Believe that there are about100 billion habitable Earth-like planets in the Milky Way, 50 sextillion in the universe.

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