Of the Perhaps 200 Billion Stars Estimated to Exist in the Galaxy,about

question 8

Multiple Choice

Of the perhaps 200 billion stars estimated to exist in the Galaxy,about how many are believed to be have Earth-like planets orbiting them close to the star?

• A) almost none
• B) a few million
• C) perhaps 35 billion
• D) almost all of them

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