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Astronomy

There are more trees on Earth, roughly 3 trillion, than stars in the Milky Way

Earth holds roughly 3.04 trillion trees, a number that dwarfs the Milky Way’s estimated 200 billion stars by more than tenfold. That comparison, built on hundreds of thousands of ground measurements and satellite data, reshaped how scientists think about forest density and what the planet stands to lose as land-use pressures accelerate. Why the 3-trillion-tree […]