how many stars are there in the sky ?

Answer 1

At least 70 sextillion

...it is too numerous to count!

Answer 2

There are very few stars that can be seen in the sky during the day and Venus (the evening star) is one, although it is actually only a planet. You can only see half of the stars in the sky. The rest are on the other side of the earth where it is day. Many stars that you can see with the naked eye are actually twins or even triplets. Many that look like stars are actually distant galaxies containing perhaps a billion stars each. Many stars on the other side of the hub of the milky way can not be seen because of gaseous clouds. Many stars in the milky way and distant galaxies are too far away and too faint to be seen. Also, stars come in many sizes and colors and brightness (magnitude) and not all can be seen equally well even with a telescope. Counting all the stars in the sky would be more difficult than counting all the grains of sand on a huge beach. At least the beach remains stationary, except at the waterline and where do you start? The easiest star to count is our sun, but only during the day.

Answer 3

There are 200 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
So consider that there are 200 billion stars in each galaxy.
So if you have the total number of galaxies in the universe you can calculate how many stars are approximately there in the universe. Also there are stars scattered across the universe, which do not belong to clusters or galaxies.
But if you are considering only the night sky, around 10,000 stars are visible through the naked eye. You might see 'n' number of stars through the telescope.
But no one can give an accurate answer to your question.
So be satisfied with this information.

Answer 4

Stars are not spread uniformly across the universe, but are normally grouped into galaxies along with interstellar gas and dust. A typical galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, and there are more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.While it is often believed that stars only exist within galaxies, intergalactic stars have been discovered.[

Astronomers estimate that there are at least 70 sextillion (7×1022) stars in the observable universe. That is 230 billion times as many as the 300 billion in our own Milky Way

Answer 5

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Like the number of grains of sand on the beach or angels that can dance on the head of a pin, the number of stars in the sky remains a great unknown. Discussing the number of stars in the Milky Way alone, astronomer William Keel, writing for the sci.astro Galaxies FAQ, claims that there are "about as many as the number of hamburgers sold by McDonald's."
Then he elaborates. The usual way to determine the number of stars in the universe is to consider how many stars there are in the Milky Way, and then to multiply that number by our best guesstimate at the number of galaxies in the universe. This FAQ suggests there are probably about 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, although "a 50% error either way is quite plausible." As for the number of galaxies in the universe, well that's a whole separate mathematical puzzle.

Other star enumerators we located on the Web offer numbers ranging from more than 200 billion stars in our galaxy to 3 thousand million billion stars (3 followed by 16 zeroes), in the universe. NASA alleges there are zillions of uncountable stars.

From a recent astronomy news article on CNN.com, we learned about the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ambitious astronomy project currently mapping the night sky, to determine the "positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects."

So stay tuned, the star count is still out.

Answer 6

It's 70 quintillion. That is 70 followed by 18 zero's. Someone said it sexitillion which is a close guess.

Annie Jump Cannon of USA discovered and found out as many as 70 crore (700 million) stars. That also included Betelguese. Now one star is identified each week and then it was 1000 a week till 1904. The equation counts till 70 quintillion till date. Nowadays stars are given names of codes.

Answer 7

I and you can see only very few stars in the sky.But when we have a broader outlook and take the whole universe into consideration there will be millions and millions of them.Some have been already discovered and some havent been.Scientists are still in the process of counting the stars.
The number of discovered stars is estimated at 56,000.But according to estimates and after employment of the triangulation method (a triangle is formed and an estimate of the are of the space is taken and then the number of stars per light year is corresponded to the distance between sun and earth)a concrete figure of 60000000000000000000000000 million has been reached.But believe me my friend when I say that it is completely preposterous to count stars and those who have set out to count stars are themselves in doubt whether they will ever succeed in their ridiculous task.

Answer 8

Depends on how many you can actually see. There are a total of over a 100 million stars in our galaxy alone.

Answer 9

There are 10 to the power of 16 stars in our universe. You can imagine how much can we see from one side of earth.

Answer 10

There are infinite stars. Unaccountable. Because if you have a vision on the Dark Night, you will definitely understand this. Hope experience it personally.

Answer 11

Nobody knows. However estimates are up at a minimum of some 10(to 40th or 50th) power, when you consider the whole universe. If you consider our galaxy, there might be a few billions or trillions.