Planets – XKCD


Fantastic comic by xkcd, as usual. But the most interesting part is the hovertext:

Planets are turning out to be so common that to show all the planets in our galaxy, this chart would have to be nested in itself–with each planet replaced by a copy of the chart–at least three levels deep.

So, approximately how many planets in our galaxy?

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