How many stars are there in Milky Way approximately??

Answer 1

100 billion

Answer 2

Friend,

There are nearly 200 to 400 billion stars in the milky way.
the sourse is wikipedia.

it is described there in this way ;

The mass distribution within the Milky Way closely resembles the Sbc Hubble classification, which is a spiral-galaxy with relatively loosely-wound arms.[6] It was only in the 1980s that astronomers began to suspect that the Milky Way is a barred spiral[7] rather than an ordinary spiral, which observations in 2005 with the Spitzer Space Telescope have since confirmed, showing that the galaxy's central bar is larger than previously suspected.[8] This argues for a classification of type SBbc (loosely wound barred spiral). In 1970 Gérard de Vaucouleurs predicted that the Milky Way was of type SAB(rs)bc, where the "rs" indicates a broken ring structure around the core region.[9]

As of 2006, the Milky Way's mass is thought to be about 5.8×1011 M☉[10][11][12] comprising 200 to 400 billion stars. Its integrated absolute visual magnitude has been estimated to be -20.9.

The galactic disk, which bulges outward at the galactic center, has an estimated diameter of about 100,000 light-years. The distance from the Sun to the galactic center is now estimated at 26,000 ± 1400 light-years while older estimates could put our parent star as far as 35,000 light-years from the central bulge.

Answer 3

You will get a wide variety of answers on here. That does not mean that everybody is full of crap. They just read different books. They measure how many stars are in the Galaxy by counting the stars visible in one cubic arc second of space in different areas of the milky way then extrapolating that amount. The actually density of stars through out the milky way is very hard to calculate. Also there are dead stars out there now, neutron stars, and binary stars. All of these can throw off how many are visible. So it is possible for it to be as little as one hundred million (100,000,000) all the way up to three hundred million (300,000,000). It is constantly being debated. Even scientist in the same journal will publish different numbers.
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Answer 4

In our milky way galaxy,there are around 10^11 or 100 billion stars.

Answer 5

If it was possible to travel at the speed of light it would take you approximately 80,000 light years to go from where our solar system sits to the closest edge of our galaxy (the milky way). The Milky Way is 250,000 to 300,000 Light years in circumference and 1000 Light Years in thickness. It is estimated to contain between 200 billion and 400 billion stars. For further refernece check out wikipedia at...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/galaxy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way_galaxy

Also check out the BBC series Planets, it is excellent (as most BBC documentaries are) and extremely informative.

Answer 6

The Milky Way contains approximately 200 billion stars. Our galaxy is at least 100,000 light-years in diameter, and our sun lies about 25,000 light years from the center. :)

That's a lot of stars. :0

Answer 7

relived from board exam ?
there r 100 billion stars in milky way galaxy

Answer 8

Stars? That's God punching pinholes into the night sky. Stars don't exist except for on television and movie screens.

Answer 9

There are appx. 100 billion star in milky way galaxy.
and appx. 100 billion galaxies in universe.. quite large....

Answer 10

best estimates are between 10^10 and 10^11 stars.