How many stars are there?
A Yale astronomer announced Dec 2010 that recent observations suggest there are far more stars in the universe than previously thought. The old count was 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or a sextillion, but the count has now tripled. ChaCha!
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You might be surprised to know that there are 200-400 billion stars in our galaxy. There could be as many as 500 billion galaxies in the Universe, and each of which could have as many or more stars as the Milky Way Thanks for using ChaCha!
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Scientists are not sure exactly how many stars there are. Scientists know that there are billions and billions of them though.
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Have you ever looked up into the night sky and wondered just how many stars there are in space? This question has fascinated scientists as well as
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Experts say there are around 70 sextillion stars out there. That would be 70,000 million million million......ChaCha away!
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There are between 10 sextillion and 1 septillion stars in the Universe. That's a large number of stars!
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The Universe is an infinite space and there are an incalculable number of stars in the expanse. ChaCha!
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There are around 10 raised to the 22nc to 10 raised to the 24th stars in the Universe according to a rough estimate.
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70 sextillion! The number was drawn up based on a survey of one strip of sky, rather than trying to count every individual star.
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