Are there more stars in our galaxy, or more galaxies in the universe?

Question

If the latter proves to be true, doesn't that make you feel dizzy thinking about it too much?

Answer 1

Did you know that a googolplex is such a large number, that if the entire known universe was packed solid with protons, there would not be a googolplex of protons in the universe.

I look up at the stars and night, and I think it is amazing that they are so small and we are so big.

Answer 2

Hubble observations indicate about 150 million galaxies in the *observable* universe. But the observable universe is at best only a small fraction of the entire universe, and therefore the number of galaxies is larger than that of stars in the Galaxy. Probably much larger.

Answer 3

As of 2006, the Milky Way's mass is thought to be about 5.8×1011 M☉ comprising 200 to 400 billion stars.

In 1999 the Hubble Space Telescope estimated that there were 125 billion galaxies in the universe, and recently with the new camera HST has observed 3,000 visible galaxies, which is twice as much as they observed before with the old camera. We're emphasizing "visible" because observations
with radio telescopes, infrared cameras, x-ray cameras, etc. would detect other galaxies that are not detected by Hubble. As observations keep on going and astronomers explore more of our universe, the number of galaxies detected will increase.

So MOST LIKELY there are more stars in the milkyway than galaxies in the universe, but that numbers are so big as to be almost meaningless.

Answer 4

"The Hubble Space Telescope has found there may be 125 billion galaxies in the universe."

So yes, there are probably more galaxies than stars in the Milky Way. Do I feel dizzy? Oh man, I do.

Answer 5

There are definately more galaxies in the universe than stars in the Milky Way. Scientific observation has provided some evidence to this.

Answer 6

There will always be more stars than galaxies, since in each galaxies there are billions of stars. Every time you find another galaxy, you find another few billion stars. It is dead certain that there are more stars than galaxies.

But to answer your question, there are more galaxies in the universe (a few trillion) than stars in our galaxy (a few billion).

Answer 7

Keep in mind that this is pure speculation on my part, but there should be more galaxies in the Universe than stars in our galaxy...
No one really knows if there are a finite number of galaxies out there, but there is a finite number of stars in the Milky Way.

Answer 8

There are far more galaxies in the universe than there are stars in our galaxy.

Answer 9

It already has been proven. There are approximately 100 billion stars in our Milky Way, but there are estimated to be trillions of galaxies. Yes, I said TRILLIONS.

Answer 10

Estimates I have heard say about equal. But they are just estimates, nobody can catalog them all or even see them all. Some are hidden behind other galaxies or dust clouds.