Now that thru modern Telescopes we are able to see Stars & Galaxies which are?
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Some people believe that Heaven and Hell do not exist in a physical place that we would be able to see or otherwise detect, but there are a few more commonsense answers to your question. It is possible that\n\n1) They are farther away than we can currently see with telescopes\n\n2) They are not immediately recognizable as Heaven and Hell from our vantage point, and we may have actually seen them already without recognizing them.\n\n3) Although we can see great distances, we haven't really looked at much of the space around the Earth. If we assume the Earth as the center of our observations, and we are able to look in any direction for billions of light years, that's a lot of area to map. We haven't done it yet.\n\nThe last decade or so has seen the discovery of a great number of objects orbiting in our own solar system outside the orbit of Pluto. We're still finding things out there, and that's not even close to a single light year away. So, it would be pretty naive to think that, if we could see Heaven or Hell through a telescope, we'd find them right away. That would be like swinging a telescope around randomly and then wondering why it didn't focus on the star you were looking for.\n\nFinally, plenty of people don't believe they exist at all, so there's another answer right there.
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Most ancient cultures saw pictures in the stars of the night sky. The earliest known efforts to catalogue the stars date to cuneiform texts and artifacts dating back roughly 6000 years. These remnants, found in the valley of the Euphrates River, suggest that the ancients observing the heavens saw the lion, the bull, and the scorpion in the stars. The constellations as we know them today are undoubtedly very different from those first few--our night sky is a compendium of images from a number of different societies, both ancient and modern. By far, though, we owe the greatest debt to the mythology of the ancient Greeks and Romans.\n\nThis website should help you a lot.  It talks seperately about 27 of the major constellations of Greek Mythology.\n\nAs far as which stars they saw?  When they lloked up at the skies without telescopes, they saw the same stars (with the exception of newly formed stars) as we see.  What we have been able to identify and name with our higher technology is such a vast list I wouldn't know where to begin.
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If your question is based on what you can see as well as are actually above us and that you are a young person with pupils that will dilate to ~ 7mm tops AND you are observing from a dark dark site with steady seeing conditions (very little "twinkling" of the observed stars)...I think around 15,000 "bright" (we won't get into "limiting magnitude" as that is a large variable) stars is a safe guess. However, technically due to the fact that the as you look towards the constellation Sagittarius in the summer from the N. hemisphere you are looking towards the center of the Milky Way (our galaxy name). That  splash of "cloud" is the combined light of (as C. Sagan would say) "billions and billions" of stars.\nThat latest estimation of our sister galaxy Andromeda is upwards of 300 billion stars alone (it's number of orbiting stars that are influenced and follow it's spin has just recently been upped quite a bit). The current estimate for the Milky Way is 250 billion...however it has also recently been re-classified as a "barred spiral" and no longer a pinwheel shape like "whirlpool spiral". So...who knows a re-estimation of it's star number content may change.\nIn general most galaxies average out to have between 200 - 300 billion stars.\n\nNow...if we take all the assumptions mentioned above (about your eyes, seeing conditions etc) and we add to the number 15,000 of bright individually distinguishable stars in the Milky Way and the number of stars represented by the glow of the Milky Way and the number of stars in the Andromeda galaxy (which a kids good eyes should be able to see ...no sweat) well then the number you can see goes...WAY UP... Carl Sagans answer is an understatement.
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The universe encloses all the stars and galaxies...so the answer is...we would see the universe. By the way, if I was that far out there and looking back, I'd be worried about what was sneaking up behind me.
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YES. There are many stars in our galaxy with solar system formed.
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All stars are round, and there are many trillions of stars, although you can only see about 3,000 of them at any one time without a telescope. The sun is a typical star, only much closer than all the others.
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Greetings,\n\nYou will sometimes see pictures of stars with points, reference to the link below.  The gentleman who took the picture placed string in a cross-hair pattern over the objective (the opposite end from the eyepiece) to make the points of the stars.  When he was asked why he does this Mr. Russel stated that he just like the way it looked.\n\nThe points on stars in most photographs are generally derived from either slight overexposure or the telescope being out of collimation slightly.\n\n-matt
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The farther we look into the universe with telescopes like Hubble and others, the more galaxies we see. I read a very interesting fact in an astronomy magazine recently that said it is estimated that if you hold your thumb out at arms lenth, close one eye and look at the top of your thumb nail, you are covering up an estimated 240,000 galaxies with your thumb regardless of what direction you look!!!!!! Each galaxy might have an average of 100 to 200 billion stars in them! I have no idea for the estimate of sand grains on every beach in the world-maybe that would be a good question to ask separately in the geography section- but I'm positive that there are quite a bit more stars than sand grains. Good luck!
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In brief, the number is astronomical. Powerful telescopes have identified galaxies beyond our own. The number of stars is comparable to asking the number of snowflakes. Our own Milky Way galaxy is thought to contain some 150 billion stars.The Hubble space telescope has identified objects some 13 billion light years away. Astronomers refer to the galaxies closest to our own galaxy as "local" galaxies.
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Optical telescopes gather visible light and magnifies the image for visual clarity and optical analysis.\n\nOptical telescopes use lenses and mirrors.\n\nRadio telescopes gather radio signal emmited by extraterrestrial bodies and amplify them for analysis.\n\nRadio telescopes have antenna.\n\nRadio and optical signals are both electromagnetic in nature covering different frequency ranges in the spectrum.\n\nRadio waves cover a much bigger range of electromagnetic wave frequesncies -- thus a provides a lot more information for analysis.
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Brad is right; there are around 3000 stars visible to the naked eye at a given moment under good seeing conditions. There are around 8000 visible in the whole 4pi sky.\n\nOur galaxy, the Milky Way, contains about 10^11 (100 billion) stars. There are about 10^11 galaxies, so about 10^22 stars in the whole universe.
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look at the stars in th upper left hand corner
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Telescopes!  When we can see various forms of light energy coming from stars and figure out how far away based on redshift and spectra, we can get an idea of how far away stars "can" be and how they are moving away from each other.  From that we determine the topology of the universe.
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Astronomy is................ looking up !
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Our Universe is the only one that we know of.  Within our universe are at least a hundred billion galaxies.  Within our galaxy (assuming it is normal) there are a hundred billion stars.  That gives us (assuming the averages hold true) roughly 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (ten sextillion) stars in the known universe.
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Wow, getting your science from coast to coast.  That's pathetic.\n\nObserving in the radio portion of the spectrum has revealed massive H2 clouds in other galaxies, which are needed for star formation.  They can only be observed in the 21cm radio line.  We've also realized that many 'radio' galaxies have immense lobes extending out from the galaxy, many times the size of the galaxies, made up of gas expelled from an interior black hole.  X-rays have shown us extrememly hot gas from galaxies and galactic clusters, falling into black holes.
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u can only see white when u look at the stars because u are seeing the combination of all the visible radiation. U can clearly make the colors through a telescope with a spectroscope attached. That is how they can tell the chemical composition of stars. However there are a few stars in the sky whose colors are plainly visible. (Betelgeuse in Orion the hunter.) but this has to do with the stars temperature. red for cool stars and blue for very hot stars.