• Question: How meany stars are there

    Asked by anon-245786 to Sam, Samantha on 10 Mar 2020. This question was also asked by anon-245464.
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      Sam Frampton answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      We don’t actually know! Mostly because the answer is too many to count! The best guess is a number like: 10000000000000000000000! Billions and billions!

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      Samantha Faircloth answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      Hello Grace, that’s a lovely question. In just our own galaxy, the Milky Way, there are thought to be over ‘100 thousand million’ stars! We thought there were 200,000 billion galaxies (that’s 200,000,000,000,000!) but now it is estimated that there are 10 times more than that!! So if you multiply the two enormous numbers….that’s a lots of stars which is very hard to imagine! : -)

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    David commented on :

    Our current measurements point to something like a 1 followed by 24 zeros. To make it even better, we now know that there’s at least one planet per star, so there must be at least 1000000000000000000000000 planets in the entire Universe!