There are more trees on Earth, over three trillion, than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy, estimated between one hundred and four hundred billion.
Why it is true
Recent estimates of global forest inventories indicate a number of trees that vastly exceeds astronomical estimates of the number of stars in our galaxy.
Source: Astronomy Data
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