2007-03-21 09:57:57 · 22 answers · asked by j.gardner1960@btinternet.com 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There are between 200 billion and 400 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
2007-03-21 10:54:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the answer to that question can only be an estimate. to count a star you must first see it. if the star happens to be on the other side of the galaxy then the light particles striking your retina started their journey a hundred thousand years ago. that's a lot of water under the bridge. it could have gone super-nova by the time you see it. that and the fact that trillions of tons of matter are captured in the accretion disk of a black hole every second. among this matter are a great number of suns that will never live out their lives as ours will. on the other hand stellar nurseries are being discovered all the time. Carl Sagen once alluded to the fact that there are more stars in the galaxy then there are grains of sand on all our beaches. i believe him.
2007-03-21 12:11:10 · answer #2 · answered by pacman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are 10 to the power of 11 stars in our Galaxy which is the same to say 100,000,000,000 stars. Wow!
2007-03-21 15:47:52 · answer #3 · answered by stardom65 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
GeoffG suggested, "you will locate the Andromeda Galaxy with the bare eye, even even though it does not inspect all like a movie star." i assume that could matter on your expectancies of what a movie star looks like. in case you think of a movie star looks like a faint white dot interior the sky, then it is precisely what the Andromeda galaxy looks opt to the bare eye. If, on the different hand, you have reliable eyes and you assume a movie star to be a pointy pin-prick of twinkling mild, you may notice that the Andromeda galaxy seems slightly fuzzy while in comparison with the different dots interior the sky, and it does not twinkle. in case you look by using a huge adequate telescope, then you certainly will see the reason at the back of the kind.
2016-11-27 20:20:04 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are billions of stars in our galaxy.
A galaxy is a collection of stars orbiting around the centre where there is usually a supermassive black hole. There are also various objects in a galaxy like nebulae, and star clusters; planetary systems and other celestial objects.
2007-03-25 09:39:52 · answer #5 · answered by Tenebra98 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are more than 200 Billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy according to Ian Ridpath, author of ASTRONOMY,
DK publishing, NY, NY.
This is an excellent book about the universe and I highly recommend it to you if you have an interest in space, etc.
Regards,
Zah
2007-03-21 11:28:33 · answer #6 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Their are billions of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy...and billions of galaxies in the Universe.
2007-03-21 10:00:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a gazillion
btw the sun is the only star in our solar system
but our galaxy is the milky way.....and our solar system is microscopic when looking at our galaxy as a whole
2007-03-21 09:59:49 · answer #8 · answered by Moo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think our galaxy is the Sun to the rock Pluto + . So One..!
2007-03-21 10:09:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 billion
2007-03-21 09:59:45 · answer #10 · answered by Dr Universe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋