In the sky at night we see many stars,do you think they are inhabited?
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no...stars are not planets, they are comprised primarily of extemely high and volatile gases that burn without oxygen.
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That's why the sky is blue and at night there are so many syars.
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well you think\nthere are billions of glaxies and inside those galaxyies there are billions of solar systems and inside those there are planets in each one  i havent even started to count the stars yet and it seems the possibility would be very likily
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Fan doesn't begin to describe it. No, strike that. I don't know where to begin a description. \n\n"Are the stars out tonight, I don't know if it's cloudy or bright..."
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You can see many of them with the naked eye, and some of the get pretty darn bright.  You can even see the inetrantional space station when it passes overhead.  Of course any of these objects will jusst look like a star moving across the sky at a decent rate.  But it is pretty cool.\n\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com will tell you exactly what is visible from your location on any night, as well as where to look.  You'll need a little bit of amature astronomy knowledge (magnitudes, reading a starchart) to get much out of it, but it is an awsome resource for this kind of thing.
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Yes, yes and yes, the people who answered your question were quite familiar with the night sky being a portal into the distant past.\nI've been fascinated with the night sky and have studied books and articles on astronomy and astro-physics over the years just so I can try to keep up with current issues.  In several bedrooms where I have lived, I have painted the night sky in deep, swirling cerulean blues and blacks with the comets(wasn't that neat we finally got to see some comets in the 1990's?) and galaxies, and shooting stars and suns and nebulae.  The best, of course, is the images that have come in through the Hubble Telescope, such majesty and wonder, beyond my simple mind to grasp!  Such distances, such an endless melange of mysteries and ideas to confront and wrap our minds around.  You must love the sky as well, to ask such as you have.  You must also be a teacher at heart.  Thanks for your question.\n                                                          --->>>Sincerely, UCSteve
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Not often enough. When I was homeless living in my car, I would study the constellations, try to remember the name of each star in Orion. I had a star chart. If it were not for thieves, I would live in a tent again, watch the possums and raccoons come out at night, feed and watch the birds by day, and stare into the stars at night. My dream home though would have a lighthouse top with windows all around and a telescope. Enjoy your time outdoors, and try to learn the names of as many stars as you can, for me. I don't know when or if I'll ever get the time to enjoy them like I once did again.
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Oh absolutely.  In fact, I have long toyed with the idea that Earth is 1st grade - 2nd grade is on Mars maybe and it's about 2 civilized planets near one another, 3rd deals with multiple solar systems, etc.\n\nI think it is very hard to look up into the night sky and see all those stars and planets out there and think that we are the only ones.  It just doesn't make sense.  Why would anyone create such a vast universe just to look pretty in the night sky?
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The number of visible stars is the same whether it is overcast or not.  The question is whether we can see them from our particular vantage point.\n\nAnyways...\n\n\nIf the relative humidity is very high, then there is an excess of moisture in the air that particulate can stick to.\n\nLogic says yes, it would make it harder to see the stars.\nFOr instance, if you look toward the horizon, there is so much atmosphere that the views from this angle would be limited in quality.\n\nBut maybe on a clear night with high relative humitidy, looking straight up wouldn't effect the view too much.  Good question.  Another thought is, after it rains really good, and the clouds clear, the humidity would be high but particulate in the air at a minimum for a short while.  SO, maybe the viewing would be better at that point.
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i have only been in a place with a dark night sky a few times in my adult life, but when i was i was excited that i could see many more stars that i usually could not see.  i could also point out things and tell others about them.  i am fascinated by nature and natural science, especially astronomy.  curiosity motivates me, and i want to learn about the bodies in the universe and the evolution of those bodies.  i also want to learn about the origin, structure, and evolution of the universe as a whole.\n\none of the astronomy classes that i have had were lab at the sommers-bausch observatory in boulder, colorado.  we made silver iodide photographs with the twenty-four inch ritchey-chrétien telescope, but the most colorful sight was the trinary system albireo.  albireo b is blue.  albireo a is a binary system, but it looks golden yellow. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albireo
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No..but if you are lucky enough to actually witness their technology..: UFO/disc/sphere/..etc..it certainly closes any doubt involving the questioning of the existence of extraterrestrials. I have been witness several occasions..day and night to objects in the sky..I certainly wasn't looking for them..I just happen to look up at the right times..but perhaps in the near future if we are lucky ..we can get more governments throughout the world to come clean..and fill us in..on what many believe and some even know...that we are not alone..here or the universe
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I am not sure, but I would imagine it would, I don't know the effect.  \n\nI just think it is amazing to see them, on a clear night.
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There are more stars than we can count.  Most of them have planets.   Most of those planets have moons.
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The problem isn't just that the sky has billions of stars to search.\nThere are also billions of frequencies.
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All stars except the Sun appear to the human eye as shining points in the night sky that twinkle because of the effect of the Earth's atmosphere. Interferometer telescopes are required in order to produce images of these objects. The Sun is also a star, but it is close enough to Earth to appear as a disk instead, and to provide daylight.\n\nStars are not spread uniformly across the universe, but are typically grouped into galaxies. A typical galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars. The majority of stars are gravitationally bound to other stars, forming binary stars. Larger groups called star clusters also exist.\n\nAstronomers estimate that there are at least 70 sextillion (7×1022) stars in the known universe [1]. That is 70 000 000 000 000 000 000 000, or 230 billion times as many as the 300 billion in our own Milky Way.\n\nThe nearest star to the Earth, apart from the Sun, is Proxima Centauri, which is 39.9 trillion kilometers, or 4.2 light years away (light from Proxima Centauri takes 4.2 years to reach Earth). Travelling at the orbit speed of the Space Shuttle (5 miles per second -- almost 30,000 kilometers per hour), it would take about 150,000 years to get there. Distances like this are typical inside galactic discs, where the Sun and Earth are located. Stars can be much closer to each other in the centres of galaxies and globular clusters, or much further apart in galactic halos.\n\nCheck the wikipedia link below.
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Stars are not scattered randomly through space, they are gathered together into vast groups known as galaxies. The Sun belongs to a galaxy called the Milky Way. Astronomers estimate there are about 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way alone. Outside that, there are millions upon millions of other galaxies also!  \n \n  \n \n \n Hipparcos mapped millions of stars in our galaxy, but how many more are there? \nIt has been said that counting the stars in the Universe is like trying to count the number of sand grains on a beach on Earth. We might do that by measuring the surface area of the beach, and determining the average depth of the sand layer. \n\nIf we count the number of grains in a small representative volume of sand, by multiplication we can estimate the number of grains on the whole beach. \n\nFor the Universe, the galaxies are our small representative volumes, and there are something like 1011 to 1012 stars in our galaxy, and there are perhaps something like 1011 or 1012 galaxies. \n\nWith this simple calculation you get something like 1022 to 1024 stars in the Universe. This is only a rough number, as obviously not all galaxies are the same, just like on a beach the depth of sand will not be the same in different places. \n\nNo one would try to count stars individually, instead we measure integrated quantitites like the number and luminosity of galaxies. ESA's infrared space observatory Herschel, to be launched in 2007, will make an important contribution by 'counting' galaxies in the infrared, and measuring their luminosity in this range - something never before attempted.
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Estimates are between 10^22 to 10^24 for the universe.\nhttp://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM75BS1VED_extreme_0.html\nFrom the site in the source -\nLike the number of grains of sand on the beach or angels that can dance on the head of a pin, the number of stars in the sky remains a great unknown. Discussing the number of stars in the Milky Way alone, astronomer William Keel, writing for the sci.astro Galaxies FAQ, claims that there are "about as many as the number of hamburgers sold by McDonald's."\n\nThen he elaborates. The usual way to determine the number of stars in the universe is to consider how many stars there are in the Milky Way, and then to multiply that number by our best guesstimate at the number of galaxies in the universe. This FAQ suggests there are probably about 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, although "a 50% error either way is quite plausible." As for the number of galaxies in the universe, well that's a whole separate mathematical puzzle.\n\nOther star enumerators we located on the Web offer numbers ranging from more than 200 billion stars in our galaxy to 3 thousand million billion stars (3 followed by 16 zeroes), in the universe. NASA alleges there are zillions of uncountable stars.\n\nFrom a recent astronomy news article on CNN.com, we learned about the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ambitious astronomy project currently mapping the night sky, to determine the "positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects."\n\nSo stay tuned, the star count is still out.