What galaxies have over 100 billion stars and swirl?
http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod_e/image/0805/DamavandMilkyWayPanS_tafreshi_orig.jpg The Milky Way, home of more than 100 billion stars, circling over the horizon and giving us a spectacular starry night. We can start with our own swirling galaxy, the Milky Way, which is thought to be one of the 100 billion galaxies, each containing on average 100 billion stars, all estimated to be within our sight with our current telescope technology. 100 billion galaxies having 100 billion stars are a lot of galaxies! It is right to say then, that an average galaxy, somewhat similar to ours, is capable of having between 100 and 200 billion stars. M85 (also known as Messier 85 or NGC 4382) is a luminous lenticular galaxy, of the S0 type, in the Coma Berenices constellation. It measures 125,000 light years across. Despite being one of the most distant objects in the Universe we can compared with our Milky Way galaxy which has some 100,000 light years in diameter, thus, M85 being larg
