• Question: How many stars are there in the galaxy?

    Asked by anon-245773 to Sam, Samantha, Nicol, Lori-Ann, Liam, David on 16 Mar 2020. This question was also asked by anon-245568.
    • Photo: Samantha Faircloth

      Samantha Faircloth answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      Hello Qinlan, scientists think there are about 250 billion in our own galaxy…the Milky Way! That’s such a hard number to imagine. Some of the stars are bigger than our own Sun (which is also a star!) : -)

    • Photo: Lori-Ann Foley

      Lori-Ann Foley answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      There are something like 10 with 11 zeros after it stars in our galaxy, so that is a lot! 🙂

    • Photo: David Sobral

      David Sobral answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      Over 100 billion, and we know that on average each of them hosts at least 1 star, so that’s at least 100 billion planets as well

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