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.
Ask Ethan: How Many Stars In The Night Sky Still Exist? An animation sequence of the 17th century supernova in the constellation of Cassiopeia. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgement: Robert A. Fesen (Dartmouth College, USA) and James Long (ESA/Hubble).