Do you ever wonder how many stars are up there?
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During clear night, there are about 6000 (six thousand) visible stars from each hemisphere of the Earth. However, it is for sure that there is no certain way of calculating the exact number of "stars up there", because of explosions of old stars and creations of new stars, that occur almost every minute, somewhere in the universe.
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That's a tough answer for even astronomers to estimate accurately. I've studied astronmy for 30+ years and it seems that the most common answer is between 200 to 400 billion. What's kind of funny about that is it seems to be really rare to read an article that says there are about 300 billion stars in the Milky Way. I have no idea why that is- strange huh? It is more common to read the number 200 billion though. Remember nobody actually counts them unless a computer does it. It's just an estimate based on a number of different obsevations. There is a lot of our galaxy that can't be seen because of interstellar dust and gas. We can't even see the center of the Milky Way from here with our eyes. We can only look towards the center which is in the constellation of Sagittarius.\nWe can see the center and other obscurred areas using different wavelenths of light that the human eye can't see, but it's still hard to pin down a close number with accuracy.
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if u r already looking at a star, then there is no point of the star not being there.......
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First, I have to question your numbers. Don't think so.\n\nBut to answer the question, EVERYONE.\n\nThank you very much, while you're up!
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If you wish upon a star.
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The question may also be asked how many more
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With the nearly infinite number of stars out there, it is reasonable to expect that life has developed on another planet. However, we won't know for sure until we actually encounter that lifeform, and that may be a long way off.
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Can you count the sand in the beach?  Obviously not.  You can, of course, relate that to the stars in the sky.
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depends on what those stars mean...
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It is estimated that there are approximately 200 million stars in the Milky Way and each one has the potential to have a "solar system" of some type.  Depends on many factors and the type of planets that can exist around a particular star also have many factors.  A number of "solar systems" have been found around other stars.  A current list of them can be found at exoplanets.org
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According to the International Astronomical Union (the official policy making body for astronomers) there are 88 constellations.  Each constellation has its own 'border', and every object in the sky falls into one of those constellations.  The best picture I could find is below.  I hope this helped!
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If you go out to the desert or a remote area, away from the city & look into the sky on a clear night, you will see many stars & planets in the sky. If you look into the sky using night vision goggles, you will be absolutly amazed to see over a million times the stars & planets in the same sky. You will see so many "Shooting Stars" you wont know which one to watch. With that in mind, knowing that many stars are out there, & thoses are just the ones you can see, the numbers are in favor of YES. Space is just too vast, there are too many other stars & planets (Billions...Trillions, or more) to think that we are the ONLY ones here. Remember, space goes on......forever.... there is no known "end".
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1,2,3,4 - nope all the stars are still there
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The simple answer is we don't know..... we're still developping the technology to find them.\n\nOf the estimated 70 sextillion stars in the known universe, (that is 70 000 000 000 000 000 000 000, or 230 billion times as much as the 300 billion in our own Milky Way Galaxy), we've only found about 180 - 190 Planets outside our own Solar System so far... and that's only indirectly with only one seen so far (using an Ifra-Red telescope or something).
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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.
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200 billion stars in the Milky Way.
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There are _trillions_ of stars in the Universe.  Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is composed of 300 - 400 billion stars.  There are _billions_ of galaxies in the Universe, many dwarfing the size of ours.\n\nThe chance of other life _not_ being out there is so close to zero that it can't even be calculated.  There are infinite possibilities in this Universe, and we haven't begun to study more than a tiny bit of them.\n\nTo anybody that has the audacity to say "no" there isn't, then get an ego check.  We aren't the only intelligent life in a Universe of infinite possibilities.