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

    Asked by FelicityP to Heather, Helen, Hugh, Jane, Julian on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Helen Johnson

      Helen Johnson answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      There are hundreds of billions of stars in every galaxy, and also billions of galaxies. So … lots!!!

    • Photo: Julian Onions

      Julian Onions answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      We don’t know exactly, but there are about 100 billion stars in our galaxy, and there are about 2,000 billion galaxies in the universe. So if each galaxy has roughly that number of stars, we have somewhere near a 100 sextillion stars overall.
      The 1 with 23 zeros after it. Too many for anyone to count!

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