2006-09-06 08:08:52 · 17 answers · asked by grymer15 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
That is like asking how many grains of sand there in the world, exactly. Nobody knows and the number is changing anyway as old stars burn out and new ones form. So the total number of stars cannot be counted, only estimated. It must be on the order of a septillion (10^24).
2006-09-06 08:20:35 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are an estimated 1 billion stars in our galaxy, the MilkyWay.
And there are an estimated 1 billion galaxies in the visible universe. So ... it would be about 1 billion ^2 or in different digits: about 10^18 stars
2006-09-06 18:26:16 · answer #2 · answered by jhstha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's impossible to know.
Since some of the stars are so many light years away. They might as well have burned up while we still see their image here on earth, just as there might allready be some new stars that have formed which we are unable to see
2006-09-06 15:13:58 · answer #3 · answered by peter gunn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
42
2006-09-06 15:11:23 · answer #4 · answered by Joe the answer man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you starated counting at age three it would take you approximately 856 years to count all the stars visible with the human eye?
2006-09-06 15:11:48 · answer #5 · answered by Which 1's Pink 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are exactly 698,785,004,875,756,123,187 stars (give or take an infinite amount)
2006-09-06 15:12:44 · answer #6 · answered by ghostbeta34 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I counted 38 the other night when i bumped my head
2006-09-06 15:15:37 · answer #7 · answered by !ELGREEKO! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To many to count
2006-09-06 15:11:29 · answer #8 · answered by nitemareboys 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More than there are grains of sand on the Earth!
2006-09-06 22:09:41 · answer #9 · answered by eventhorizon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask Carl Sagan...
2006-09-06 15:17:08 · answer #10 · answered by young108west 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋