who was the first person to discover how many stars are in the sky?

Answer 1

You're kidding, right? The stars havn't been numbered.

Answer 2

It would be impossible to count all the stars. a rock the size of the white house in the right spot at the wrong time could block earths view of 10 billion galaxies.
The estimate consensus is that there are 100 billion stars per medium size galaxy (milky way). And there are 80 billion medium galaxies.
There are far fewer large galaxies (MRC 1138-262), but large galaxies contain 5-10x more stars then a medium galaxy. so 40 billion large galaxies with 500 billion stars.
Small galaxies are the biggest problem, because we see much less light coming from them.
And i dont believe we even have an estimate on these galaxies.
But if we stay with what we know, there are probably twice as many small galaxies as medium galaxies.
So 160 billlion small galaxies contianing 25 billion stars.
We will never know the true number, the estimates could be off by trillions of galaxies and a billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion stars.

Answer 3

Remember, stars are actually other suns seen from vast distances. It is not known how many stars are in the universe, but our galaxy, The Milky Way has around 200 billion. And there are billions of other galaxies. Looking into the sky with a modest telescope you will begin to see stars beyond the bright stars our naked eyes see. A larger telescope will collect more light for your eyes and you will see more even more distant stars.

Answer 4

Nobody knows how many stars there really are, and nobody could probably ever count them. In stead, scientists estimate the number based on observable data.

Besides, you can't even see all of the stars there are in the sky. See how many stars there are in these pictures?

http://www.astropix.com/HTML/SHOW_DIG/040.HTM
http://www.astropix.com/HTML/SHOW_DIG/022.HTM

This is just a sliver of the sky - you could hold your hand up at arm's length, and it would cover more of the sky than is in this picture - yet look how many there are!

Galaxies typically contain from 10 million to 1 trillion stars - the Milky way is estimated to contain from 200 billion to 400 billion stars. Of course, a large number of these are too faint to be seen in the sky with the naked eye.

Beautiful picture of the Milky Way in the sky:
http://www.astropix.com/HTML/SHOW_DIG/003.HTM
(that is the center of our galaxy in the picture - the cloudy looking thing in the center of the picture. You don't see it like this in the sky yourself - the photographer left the shutter open for almost 1minute to get this picture)

Answer 5

Nobody ever has (nor likely ever will) quantify the number of stars that exist. But to give you a rough idea, imagine a handful of sand.
How long would it take you to count every grain of sand in one hand full?
A long time, yes?
There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on every beach on the entire planet.
Ponder that for a while.

Answer 6

the first person to discover how many stars are in the sky is in the future where humans would evolve and have these "super abilities" and also having billions of eyes all over its body.. i dont know his/her name.. coz obviously that person is not yet born!

Answer 7

nobody still knows it, so be the 1st

Answer 8

no one has and no one ever will

Answer 9

nobody hasn't

Answer 10

no one has and no one will~~~ except god!