Question: how many stars can be seen from earth

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  1. Hi Adrian,

    I might leave this for Steven, because all my answer is going to be is BILLIONS AND BILLIONS

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  2. Well, there are a few hundred billion stars in our Galaxy, which is a lot. Our Galaxy is pretty normal in size. Obviously you can’t see all of those stars, but you can see the integrated faint light from many of them when you look at the Milky Way, which is what you see when you look along the disk of our galaxy. So, you are seeing the light from billions of stars all mixed together, without seeing the individual stars. But to answer your specific question, it depends where you are looking from and how good your eyes are. From a dark location away from lights, and with normal vision, you should be able to see a few thousand – that is about 0.0000001% of the stars in our Galaxy!

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  3. Nice answer by Steven! Great question, Adrian, and I just learned something cool! 🙂

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  4. Many…
    Oh, whats that, Steven has an actual answer? Better leave it to him.

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