Does anybody know how many stars are in the sky?? is there someone who counts them???

Question

Just wondered. Do they get PAID for counting stars and planets????

Answer 1

If you wanna get paid for counting stars... get started... once you've finnished you get paid...

Answer 2

It is purely estimation.

Answer 3

As technology improves, they do count them.  They find more each year.  But only God knows the actual number.

Answer 4

I really hate to show off by solving this little problem, but since no one else has yet...I guess it is up to me!  For your first question...all of them are in the sky!  For your second question...no, but there are people that name them!  I think you can send somebody money and have one named!

Answer 5

Did you know you can see twice as many stars when looking through binoculars.

Answer 6

It depends on weather you think the universe goes on forever or not.  And if you are just talking visible by the human eye stars or visible by telescope or other devices which let you see many more?

Answer 7

astronomers & technology

over 400 billion

sci.astro Galaxies FAQ, claims that there are "about as many as the number of hamburgers sold by McDonald's."

if that helps =]

Answer 8

2

Answer 9

I guess they don't count, but they do estimate:

<<The best estimates suggest that there are at least 70 thousand million million million (70 sextillion or 7 × 1022) stars in the Universe. The Universe probably contains more than 100 thousand million (100 billion or 1011) galaxies.>>

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/ConWebD...

Answer 10

i ma at 150 and still counting, my eyes are starting to hurt!!!

Answer 11

Stars aren't in the sky, they're out in space.

So zero.

Answer 12

there and infinte amount of stars and galaxies its impossible to count them all

Answer 13

um no there are probably infinite because there are always new stars born every few seconds.

Answer 14

You can not count them all some are so faint that we can not even see them from here.  Also new ones are born and die all of the time but we do not know until the light has the times to get to our eyes and that takes years.  So the answer is no.

Answer 15

Astronomers use their giant super powered telescopes to scan the stars every day looking for new celestial bodies. When they find one, they document it into a database and keep it stored. This happens everyday. New stars and galaxies are constantly being discovered and this will most likely continue to be the case for a long time. The universe is uncomprehendingly large and it will be sometime before there can be known how many stars are in the skies.

Also, because the Earth is always spinning, somebody's "sky" will be different than someone else's "sky." People in different places will see different stars at different times. The term "sky" in this situation is not constant because at different times, one can see a different sky.

Answer 16

you cant!! i once read a fact on this interesting facts colum on my cereal box saying that if you were to count all of the stars starting from now it would take you 1000 years its not worth it!!

Answer 17

go to the sea shores and start to count the sand. every single sand is equivalent to one star. =)

Answer 18

nobody in this life would ever be able to count all the stars. there are way too freaking many.

Answer 19

No one knows for sure how many stars there are in the universe at one time. Old stars die, and new ones are born all the time. However they estimate that our galaxy itself contains around 100,000,000,000 stars. And that's just our home Galaxy of the Milky Way, The galaxies in the universe are almost as mulitudiness as the stars themselves. And yes people get paid for studying stars and planets. They're called Astronomers.

Answer 20

no one could if they did it would only be in are galaxy think about trillions apon trillions of galaxies

Answer 21

haha just to let you know i doubt it there is way to many actually let me change that i don't doubt i know

Answer 22

someone with no life and we can see how many stars are on the other side of the planet because the sun is out so I would say people just guesstimate

Answer 23

Billions and trillions. Email NASA. Then you will get an answer.

Answer 24

I think its like a geoglist or something but you have to be really good in school!

Answer 25

Trillions and more.  The universe is endless...and there are stars so distant that we cannot even or ever see....there are no "walls"...no "end".

Makes you think that somewhere out there is other life forms.  Got to be.  We can't be so smug to think we're the only life in the vast universe....  Notice I didn't say "in the entire universe"?  The term "entire" poses a possibility of a measure of size.

Answer 26

YES BUT HE DOES NOT HAVE TO COUNT THEM

Answer 27

Visible to the unaided eye (i.e. without a telescope of some kind) on a crystal clear night there are approximately 138,450 stars. The rest are too dim to see.

BTW They paid me $500 to count them.

Getting serious, I found this:

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Visible Stars

Listen to Karl talk about Visible Stars

(You will need Real Audio which you can download for free)

How many stars can you see at night?

It seems like millions, but it's less than a thousand! Astronomers measure the brightness of stars in Magnitudes. In a fairly dark suburb on an average night, the faintest star you can see is about Magnitude 5.5.

There are about 2,800 stars visible down to a brightness of Magnitude 5.5. Of course, these stars surround the entire globe of the Earth, so you'll be able to see only about half of these stars above your local horizon at any given time - say about 1,400 stars.

But there's an effect called "atmospheric extinction", which means that as a star gets low in the sky and close to the horizon, it gets lost from view because the light is absorbed by the extra atmosphere it has to travel through. Also, the number of stars you can see depends on your location. For example, in Australia, we can always see the Southern Cross, while people on the other side of the equator can see the Southern Cross only at certain times of the year, and then, only for a few hours.

At Australia's latitude, we can see more stars than anyone else on the planet - about 950 after dusk, dropping to about 800 in the early morning.

So because we in Australia can see more stars, and at such a convenient time as soon after sunset, perhaps we have a Cosmic Duty to look at the evening sky every night.

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Answer 28

Oh...sorry, no.

Well, i thought that it was no....

Answer 29

You can't count them...that is a ridiculous question. Since stars can't be counted, you can't exactly pay anybody to do it.

Answer 30

Actually I counted them last night and the number is the same as freckles on all the peoples faces. Isn't that ironic ?

P.S. I didn't get  a paycheck but my payment was the reward in knowing but if I tell anyone  the actual number then they'll have to kill me. More irony.

Answer 31

Haha I have no clue! I don't think it's possible to count them ALL. If you can you'll probably miss some. There's probably like a ka-zillion! I think astronomers do that.