If you have ever had a medical checkup, you have probably heard about the Body Mass Index (BMI) that it supposed to have an optimal value around 25. Probably you were told to take your weight in pounds, divide it by the square of your height in inches and multiply the result by 703 to find your BMI.
Well, astronomers think there are large number of stars and guess (estimate) that there are around 1 septillion stars in the Universe1. If you look at the night sky, you can see around 3,000 stars with the naked eye. A galaxy is a group of hundreds of billions of stars that are relatively close to each other.
The real purpose for the constellations is to help us tell which stars are which, nothing more. On a really dark night, you can see about 1000 to 1500 stars. Trying to tell which is which is hard. The constellations help by breaking up the sky into more managable bits.