Details. as.character and is.character are generic: you can write methods to handle specific classes of objects, see InternalMethods. Further, for as.character the default method calls as.vector, so dispatch is first on methods for as.character and then for methods for as.vector.
But this is the number of stars we can see from the entire Earth and we should remember that one hemisphere of Earth is always in daylight, so really only about 2500 to 5000 stars are visible at night from any given point on Earth.
How many stars are there in our Galaxy (Milky Way)? I am confused about the number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy. Some sources say that the Milky Way consists of 100 billion stars. Other say that the MASS of our galaxy is roughly 100 billion times the mass of the Sun. So because most of the galaxy mass is in the interstellar gaseous and dust nebulae there must be less than a 100 billion stars in it or the total mass must be greater.