Top 7 Facts About Space - Page 2 of 9

The Number of Stars in the Sky Is Uncountable and Infinite

One of the most amazing outer space facts is that we have absolutely no idea how many stars are in the universe. Scientists have estimated how many stars are on the milky way which is in our own galaxy. However, not even NASA knows exactly how many stars are out there. They have thrown numbers around including zillions, but everything is just a guess. In addition, the Australian National University also attempted to estimate how many stars where in the universe. Their estimate wasd 70 Sextillion stars in the outer space. In other words, there guess was 70,000 million million million.