• Question: how many stars are there in the universe?

    Asked by MY NAME JEFF to Chris on 16 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Chris Conselice

      Chris Conselice answered on 16 Mar 2016:

      Good question. There are a trillion galaxies and each of those has about 100 billion stars, so there are 100 billion trillion stars or 10^(22) stars if you know exponential notation.

      that’s a lot!!

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