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Amol joined 500 million pilgrims from all over the globe for the world’s largest religious festival Kumbh Mela ...

The answer: There are approximately 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe – that’s 2 trillion. Astronomers don’t know exactly how many stars are in each of those 2 trillion galaxies. Most are so ...