A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars

Carl Sagan
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone. ✨ Cosmos ch. 1 (1980). Sagan denied using the phrase billions and billions, as caricatured by comedian Johnny Carson, but the above quote approaches that phrase, and Sagan was extremely fond in his writing of the word billion or billions.
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