2007-02-06 03:13:02 · 9 answers · asked by Ray13 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Right now the milky way has about 200 billion stars.
2007-02-06 03:16:36 · answer #1 · answered by E 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Im not sure that we own a galaxy. However the one we are in is called the Milky Way. If a star on the average is equivalent to the Sun ,then there would be aprox. 5.8 x10^11 stars contained therein.This calculation is based on the basis that the Milky Way weights= 1,115246x10^42 kilograms of mass at the acceleration of one meter per seconds square.
2007-02-06 03:33:30 · answer #2 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Approximately 200 Billion.
2007-02-06 03:40:34 · answer #3 · answered by Egghead 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Too many to count. There are far more than anyone can see in the night sky. And some of the stars you do see, aren't there anymore. They could have died along time ago, but the last bit of light that it gave off is still coming across space into our eyes. As fast as light is, the stars are so far away that we notice a delay in the time it takes to reach us (It takes 8 hours for light from the Sun to reach Earth; it takes years for light to reach Earth from any other star).
2007-02-06 03:39:22 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
3-4 hundred billion in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
2007-02-06 03:23:34 · answer #5 · answered by stargazergurl22 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Somewhere around 400 billion and 500 billion.
2007-02-06 03:43:33 · answer #6 · answered by bldudas 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on where you look, both are reputable sources yet answers are completely different.
Approximately 100,000,000,000
See: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980202g.html
or
500 thousand million (equivalent to US 500 billion)
See: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.20495
2007-02-06 03:23:05 · answer #7 · answered by Cymro 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Damn, I was just counting them and the phone rang.
2007-02-06 03:25:58 · answer #8 · answered by drawman61 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
a gazillion billion.
2007-02-06 03:20:41 · answer #9 · answered by Work is for Busters 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋