POLL: How many solar systems are there in the universe ???

Question

Thank you.

Answer 1

An infinant amount.

Answer 2

It's said in the science community that it's an infinite number because no one really knows how many there are, just too many to count and many too far even for our most powerful telescopes to see.

Answer 3

One.Because theere    is only onle sun

Answer 4

how long is a piece of string

scienceman - your a ******* STFU or GTFO

Answer 5

go there and count it by yourself

i have things to do

Answer 6

technically we live in the only true "solar" system because our star is "the sun".  but if you're talking about any system of stars and planets then there's trillions upon trillions.

Answer 7

AS much as i would love to answer your qeuestion, there are solar systems being created as we speakl , as we are not the only ones. THere are too many to count to be honest with you, im not too lasy to search but there are actually too many to keep count of, some die, some are born everyday.

Answer 8

Multiply the grains of sand on earth by the number

brain cells on earh and you,ll still not be close !

Answer 9

Trillions, maybe quadrillions. Properly speaking, all of them are stellar systems, but ours is called the solar system after its primary, Sol.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

1

Answer 12

I have no idea sorry

Answer 13

two types

one is direct solar energy convert to other by photovolatic

two, Solar power is implement indirectly any other source like water, then use it to produce energy

Answer 14

Millions. There is no definite number.

Answer 15

I only know one but many say that there are tons of them!

Answer 16

oh dear! the answers here are terrible! only one? please people!

we don't know the exact amount because we can't count them all in our own galaxy, much less the entire universe. we can, however, give a rough estimate. in the visible universe, the universe we can observe from earth, there are in theory, about 750,000,000,000,000,000 (750 sextillion) solar systems. and thats just in the visible universe. imagine how many there are in the vase uncharted relms of the universe that are simply too far away to see.

lets clear up some of these answers shall we?

Rami K is completely wrong. do you think exo-planets are in our solar system? no!

sam d shouldn't answer the question if he has no clue.

mythbuster is getting some of his facts mixed up. new solar systems don't just appear out of the blue everyday.

Zunaead S didn't even read the question

mikethots is completely wrong as well. the only true solar system? my, my, my. the term "sun" is a used in relavence. the sun is a sun. its technically "sol", but we refer to it as the sun, because it is our sun. to another planet in another solar system, their local star would be their sun and our sun would not be considered a sun to them because its not their local star.

Auia Gal isn't right either. there isn't a infinite amount of them. we can't even really define the term "infinity" muchless use it as a figure to describe the amount of solar systems.

nintendo... chose to answer a question with a question. this ins't the philosophy category!

ncandima... again, there is not an infinite amount.

the person after him said only millions... there are probably spetillions more than millions. and again, new solar systems aren't being made every minute.

hope this helped. and keep in mind, the figure i presented is in theory, and only includes the visible universe. we cannot even begin to calculate the gastronomical number of solar systems throughout the entire universe.

Answer 17

haha ask God and He'll tell u

Answer 18

idk

Answer 19

well, we are barely getting the technology to discover very distant planets... but i wouldn't be suprised to find out every single star in the universe has a solar system.....

so just for a quick guesstimate.... 200,000,000 (stars in the average spiral galaxy) x 200,000,000 (galaxies in the known universe) which leaves you with something like  200,000,000,000,000,000 solar systems (just as a guess)

Answer 20

Two-1 for You, and 1 for Me.................

Answer 21

Let's see.....200-400 billion stars in our galaxy.  Hundreds of billions of galaxies.  Our sun is an average star.  Do the math.

Answer 22

There has got be millions of solar systems

Answer 23

when you look into the night sky all the stars you see are potential solar systems . there are more stars in the night sky then grains of sand on all the baches on earth . if you were to hold a grain of sand up to the night sky and then zoom in on it for a month you would see hundreds of stars  so the answer to your question is infinite because the universe is infinite

Answer 24

Maybe millions of solar systems and as i typing, new solar system are made. So, each minute the number of solar system goes up.

Answer 25

I have a question from our young friends at the Mountain Home Air Force Base Youth Activities Center in Mountain Home, Idaho. They wonder how many solar systems are in our galaxy. Well, I wonder the same thing! I wish I knew the answer to this thought-provoking question, but not only do I not know, no one does. So I guess you could hang up right now, or you might want to keep listening, because even though I don't know the answer, this question brings up some thrilling ideas.

For many years scientists have studied our solar system, consisting of the Sun plus 9* planets, as well as dozens of moons, hundreds of known comets, and thousands of known asteroids. But until the last few years, we knew of no other solar systems. This may seem surprising, as the Sun is one of around 200 billion stars just in the Milky Way galaxy alone. With all those other stars, why haven't scientists studied other solar systems, at least enough to know how many are in our galaxy? Well, the reason is that planets around other stars are really really really hard to find. As you may have heard me talk about in a previous month, the planets shine only by the light they reflect from the star they orbit, and they don't reflect much light at that. And the stars, along with any planets under their control, are so far away that we can't pick out a faint planet near a distant star any more than you could make out a firefly next to a brilliant searchlight miles away.

So although scientists, philosophers, writers, and people like you who have been fascinated by the universe have thought about other solar systems for centuries, they haven't had any to study. When I was young, this was one of many topics that I spent a great deal of time wondering about. In fact, when I was in the ninth grade, I was lucky enough to meet an astronomer who thought he had detected two planets around Barnard's Star, one of the closest stars to our solar system. It was quite a thrill for me to meet someone involved in such exciting work. Alas, later evidence suggested his conclusions were incorrect, but I learned a great deal about the subject, as well as about the scientific method, by studying what this impressive astronomer had accomplished.

Finally in the middle 1990s, astronomers found strong evidence of planets around other stars. In all cases, they found the planets not by taking pictures of them, but rather by detecting their astonishingly gentle tugs on the stars they orbit. Although the star holds the planet tightly in its gravitational grip, the planet also exerts a gravitational pull back on the star, and that is what astronomers measure. It amounts to seeing the star wobble back and forth very slightly as the planet completes each orbit. You can learn more about this gravitational dance by visiting [here] The Space Place Web site at spaceplace.nasa.gov. Go to Space Science in Action, and try to solve the extraterrestrial riddle.

NASA is working on several space missions that will allow scientists not only to find other solar systems but also to study the planets there in greater detail. Some of the intriguing questions these missions might help answer are how common are other solar systems; is our solar system typical, with giant planets like Jupiter and smaller ones like Earth; how do solar systems form and evolve; are there other planets capable of supporting life; and is there life on other planets?

So far, astronomers have found about 70 solar systems and are discovering new ones every year. Given how many they have found in this neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, scientists estimate that there may be many billions of solar systems in our galaxy. Whether this estimate is correct, and how similar other solar systems are to ours, remain to be seen. It has only been a few years since the first solar system apart from ours was detected, so this whole subject is still in its infancy. By the time our friends who asked the questions are adults, we will know a great deal more. Perhaps someday you will help find the answers. And even if you don't, you may grow up in a time when humankind has a much clearer idea of how we and our home planet fit into the cosmos.

Answer 26

solar is the adjective for sun, and solar system is the system of sun and the planets, asteroids and satellites orbiting sun. so since there is only one sun in the universe there is only one solar system.

Answer 27

How long is a piece of string, I have no idea.

Answer 28

We Are It.....N0 SPACE ALIENS EITHER

Answer 29

You're kidding.. Right?

Answer 30

um...quite a few