Scientists: Do you know the accurate number of stars....?

Question

I was searching and found at least four different answers scientifically. Some said million, billion, thrillion and zillion. Can scientist be more specific? Nasa said a zillion. I looked up the word zillion......but can the scientists on YA give the defination of a zillion?

Answer 1

well only creater of the univrse knows the answers

Answer 2

Scientists don't know this with great precision. In 2003 it was reported that astronomers estimate there are at least 70 sextillion (7×10 to the 22nd power (7 with 22 zeroes after it)) stars in the known universe. That is 230 billion times as many as the 300 billion in our own Milky Way. The major reason for imprecision is that the actual universe may be bigger or smaller than the known universe, mainly as a result of the time it takes light to reach us.

NASA did not say a zillion. Zillion and thrillion are not real numbers or words.

Answer 3

Zillion is slang for a large but indefinite number. Nobody knows the actual number, but it is extremely large -- certainly in the millions of billions, and probably much larger than that.

Answer 4

I've never heard a scientist give a specific number. Most estimates conclude that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth. In other words it's a shitload.

Answer 5

Im sorry its not a direct answer to you question but something from one of my recent lecture's i'd like to share.

From several pictures of the hubble telescope there are approx. 10,000 galaxies that can be seen with one of its photographs. From earth, each photo graph has approx. the size of holding a sewing needle at arm's length to see a tiny section of night sky through the eye of the needle.
Now imagine how many eye's of a needle you can fit at arms length across the night sky in just one hemisphere, times that by 2 to account for both hemispheres, then times by 10,000 for the number of galaxies.

Now considering that number of galaxies, and each galaxy can hold billions of stars (actual billion (million-million) no finacial billion), i think you may need to extend your question to be more specific.

The universe is incomprehendably BIG!! hope the idea doesn't rob too much sleep from you though :)

Answer 6

the sciences are very easy to the heavens, probably before you were born their was a Carnegie grant to bring all this information to institution but not to u so that is the way it is, u want to access this it take skills and that can drive anyone crazy with pain of (defecating) =THE WORD WAS OFFERED ON SCREEN AS ALTERNITIVE LOOKS GOOD AHH?electrical impulses of a computer and those that can't be plugged into neural rectors on line,before the information can give satisfaction of all governent agencies has bee assured and the system can move on its own with out the key board and monitor, i just won't fly?ALL STAR GROUPS OF THE MILKWAY GALIXY ARE DOCUMENTED

Answer 7

I stopped counting at 258.

Answer 8

Yes, a Zillion is the number of brain cells that you have killed...........

Answer 9

The stars are beyond count, so far as we know. There are countless ones that we cannot even see with our sophisticated telescopes.

The Bible, I believe even states that they are beyond count. So I guess the number is the eight on its side.

Answer 10

Should you go out hunting for something you know you can't find, you'll wind up with no game. Old Chinese proverb.