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Originally Posted by MTUpower
And boy oh boy we've studied and found so many...
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I believe the current count is around 300+ planets outside of our solar system. Although the last time I checked/heard anything was more than a few months ago and all of these have been discovered in the past decade so obviously the number could increase rather quickly in a short period of time.
There are ~200 billion stars in our galaxy. Even if you low-ball the number of stars that have planets or the number of planets per star, the number of planets in our galaxy alone could be incredibly large.