![]() ![]() These are huge numbers that are incomparable to anything on earth. The lowest number of stars that can be found in the universe is ten sextillion (10 billion billion) and 200 sextillions at the higher end. There are more than 100 billion galaxies in the universe with some researchers placing the figure at about 500 billion. ![]() The Milky Way Galaxy has between 100 and 400 billion stars. How Many Stars Are There in the Universe?įinding the answer to the number of stars in our universe involves generating a mathematical problem of - dare we say it - cosmic proportions. There is no definite way to determine the exact number of stars in the universe and the number of sand grains along the shores but mathematical estimations can be made. The question left people surprised at how big the universe is considering that the sand along the earth’s coastlines amounts to trillions of tones. American astronomer Carl Sagan once stated that “there are more stars in our Universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth”. ![]()
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