• Question: how many stars are there in the sky.

    Asked by pastysmasher to Charlotte, Dhvanil, Frank, Jim, Leila on 16 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Dhvanil Karia

      Dhvanil Karia answered on 16 Mar 2013:

      A lot of them…it is hard to count them but they would be in millions for sure….

    • Photo: Jim O Doherty

      Jim O Doherty answered on 17 Mar 2013:

      Thats a bit of a tricky one, its like saying how many grains of sand are on a beach. It also depends where on Earth you stand, and the time of the year. But there are estimated to be about 500 billion starts in our galaxy, although you certainly wouldn’t be able to see most of these without a super-powered telescope!

    • Photo: Frank Soboczenski

      Frank Soboczenski answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      I think a recent guess is about 10 times 23 stars that is a ten with 23 zeros! Just imagine how much we still have to explore and to discover!

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