SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- Ever wanted to wish upon a star? Well, you have 70,000 million million million to choose from.
That's the total number of stars in the known universe, according to a study by Australian astronomers.
It's also about 10 times as many stars as grains of sand on all the world's beaches and deserts.
The figure -- 7 followed by 22 zeros or, more accurately, 70 sextillion -- was calculated by a team of stargazers based at the Australian National University.
- ten times more than the number of grains of sand on Earth
- eleven times the number of cups of water in all the Earth's oceans
- ten thousand times the number of wheat kernels that have ever been produced on Earth
- one hundred million times more than the number of ants in all the world
- one hundred million times the dollar value of all the market-priced assets in the world
- ten billion times the number of cells in a human being
- one hundred billion times the number of letters in the 14 million books in the Library of Congress
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/07/22/stars.survey/
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/star_count_030722.html
http://info.anu.edu.au/ovc/Media/Media_Releases/_2003/_030717StarCount.asp
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