COUNTING THE STARS.
Stars visible to the unaided eye are numbered by thouands, those to be seen through telescopes are estimated in millions, and it has been usually supposed that a hundred millions is the number of all the stars visible through the great telescopes. According to a calculation made by Mr Ellard Gore and published in the Observatory, this is, however, probably an overestimate. To obtain his results Mr Gore counted the numbers of the stars in a number of the photographs made by the late Dr Roberts of stellar regions, distinguishing them as photographs made in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way and those made in regions that lie without it: Combining these results with Professor Pickering's estimate of the relative areas of Milky Way stars and of other star spaces he obtains the grand total for all the stars of 64,184,757. This is possibly an underestimate, because some of the fainter stars might not appear in photographs, comprehensive as they are.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8337, 21 January 1907, Page 7
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164COUNTING THE STARS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8337, 21 January 1907, Page 7
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