Tuesday 4 June 2013

Counting stars.....

A few days ago I posted on a quirky bit of research: Measuring how much light there was in the whole universe. Well if your brain works like mine, and always takes an idea and runs with it until it falls over, the next logical question from 'how much light' is 'how many stars'?

How do we measure how many stars there are in the sky?

Here's how, courtesy of the clever folks over at Universe Today (which you should definitely take a look at):
 

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