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10/20/2008 5:54 PM

How many stars are there in the milkyway? Does the sun have something to do with them?

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Re: Sun

10/20/2008 6:00 PM

There's a whole bunch. The sun is generally standoffish and keeps to itself.

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Re: Sun

10/20/2008 6:05 PM

LOTS!!!

Taken from Wikipedia:

The stellar disk of the Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light-years (9.5×1017 km) in diameter, and is believed to be, on average, about 1,000 ly (9.5×1015 km) thick.[8] It is estimated to contain at least 200 billion stars[9] and possibly up to 400 billion stars,[10] the exact figure depending on the number of very low-mass stars, which is highly uncertain. Extending beyond the stellar disk is a much thicker disk of gas. Recent observations indicate that the gaseous disk of the Milky Way has a thickness of around 12,000 ly (1.1×1017 km)—twice the previously accepted value.[11] As a guide to the relative physical scale of the Milky Way, if it were reduced to 130 km in diameter, the Solar System would be a mere 2 mm in width.

On another note, this is a very interesting video showing the relative sizes of stars (and how tiny we are!!)

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1768855/the_size_of_all_planets_are_relative/

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Re: Sun

10/20/2008 6:17 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcTHBOjnUss

All will be revealed.

Enjoy.

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