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Andee Oord
Andee Oord
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How many stars are in the sky?

I've always wondered this, so I looked it up. It said the number is always changing, since stars are dying and being born and all that. Well pooey!!! People can estimate the number of humans in the world, and we're dying and being born too.

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  • Zoe
    Zoe
    Answered February 28, 2011
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    Each star is a different universe. There is as many stars as there are grains of sand. There is as many stars as people. Each star is 1 person, therefore, every person is a star, shining brightly.

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    1. You can't say there are as many stars as there are people, and that there are as many stars as there are grains of sand. There are more grains of sand than there are people!
      Andee Oord · March 01, 2011
    2. :D Or is there.....ALIENS
      Zoe · March 01, 2011
    3. haha
      Andee Oord · April 07, 2011
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  • Gabri
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    Answered February 28, 2011
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    You can never number the stars......but if you think about it space never ends so there are probably a billion stars......also some stars you see in the sky are burned out but the light keeps going since we are so far away, that is called light years. I hope this helps

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    1. I'm pretty sure there are more than 1 billion. When I looked it up, it said 400 trillion...just throwing that out there.
      Andee Oord · March 01, 2011
    2. Yeah I know there is more I just tried for her to figure it out. :)
      Gabri · March 02, 2011
    3. alrighty then
      Andee Oord · April 07, 2011
    4. Yeah I just ended my astronomy unit
      Gabri · April 08, 2011
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  • Coach Balasco
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    Answered March 03, 2011
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    Andee, the estimate is very general as even our beginning numbers are estimates, but we generally assume about 10 to the 12th or 13th power number of stars in the average galaxy ( about 10 trillion ) and about the same or greater number of galaxies in the estimated universe. Multiply the two together and you get about 10 to the 26th power number of stars. That's 1 with 26 zeros following it, or about 100 trillion trillion. Go ahead and start counting.

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    1. Gack, your not doing it the philosophy way, like me and my twin did.
      Zoe · March 03, 2011
    2. So you want philosophical? how about if you count all the stars and are able to count 10 stars per second it will take you 300,000 trillion years to count them all. Or if you stack that many pieces of paper it would be 630,000 trillion miles high. It would reach past neptune 2 billion times. It would take light 105,000 years to reach the end of it. Hows that for philosophical. Start counting
      Coach Balasco · March 03, 2011
    3. haha wow. actually no offense other people but im not a big fan of the philosophy way. hey thats ironic my dad is a philosopher. that was random.
      Andee Oord · April 07, 2011
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  • Cat
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    Answered April 10, 2011
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    It takes you 3000 years to count all the stars on the heaven. Let see, the numbers of stars is much more a lot than number of sands on Earth(I mean the finest sand). And I would say that this is INFINITE and the numbers of stars are not fixed sometimes.

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Asked February 27, 2011.
Edited March 08, 2011.
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