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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
Experts estimate that there are 60 billion stars in the universe, each surrounded by numerous objects caught in their gravitational pull.
Yet there are people who live on this particular object who think that they alone are "special".
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Chula, not meaning to pick on you, but you might want to change your number here...
UCSB Science Line
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There are about 10 billion galaxies in the observable universe! The number of stars in a galaxy varies, but assuming an average of 100 billion stars per galaxy means that there are about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that’s 1 billion trillion) stars in the observable universe! Notice that I have been saying the observable universe. We can only observe parts of the universe that are within 13.7 billion lightyears of earth. This is because the big bang occurred about 13.7 billion years ago. We make observations about distant stars by measuring the light that reaches earth and satellites that we have in space. Light from stars farther than 13.7 billion lightyears away has not had time to reach us yet! The universe must be much bigger than the universe that we can observe at this time, therefore there may be many more stars out there!
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Your heart is in the right place though.